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To Prepare Ice for Icing

A method for making ice cream using ice and rock salt in an ice pot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Prepare Ice for Icing

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the ice bath

  1. Break the ice into small pieces and place it in a bucket.

  2. Add the rock salt to the ice.

  3. Choose a cool area in your house to prepare the mixture.

  4. Ensure there are holes in the bucket to allow melted ice to drain.

Churn the ice cream

  1. Put your cream into an ice pot and cover it.

  2. Immerse the ice pot in the ice and salt mixture, ensuring it touches all sides.

  3. Stir the cream with a spatula or spoon every few minutes, moving the ice from the edges to the center.

  4. If using a mold, seal the bottom and move the entire mold in the ice without using a spoon.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cream (in the method)
Freezes into the ice cream, so it becomes the smooth, creamy base of the dish.
Rock salt
Lowers the melting point of the ice, letting the surrounding mixture get colder than ice alone.

The step that matters

Stirring the cream as it freezes. Cream that sits still freezes in hard, icy layers at the cold walls. Regular stirring, moving ice from the edges toward the center, keeps the mixture cold and evenly textured.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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