What Big Food Did to Ice Cream(ahalflife.substack.com) |
What Big Food Did to Ice Cream(ahalflife.substack.com) |
"Häagen-Dazs" is an invented pseudo-Scandinavian phrase coined by the American Reuben Mattus, in a quest for a brand name that he claimed was Danish-sounding.
Just make a base, pour it on to some baking sheets, then swirl and scrape it off. When set up, transfer back into a bowl and allow to freeze.
It has to be pretty cold for this to work, and the ice cream isn't perfectly smooth like with a churner, but it's pretty damn good.
I'm sometimes surprised at how many people don't know that you don't have to have an ice cream maker to make ice cream. Like with a toaster, the specialty machine is purely a convenience item and not actually necessary. When I was a kid, we did it in jars sitting in bowls of salted ice, shaking the jars instead of using a churner. The smoothness is determined by how much the base mixture is agitated while freezing, so you get to choose how much effort is needed to make you happy with the result.