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• Uncooked fruits easily discolour when they are
puréed. To prevent discolouring, sprinkle some
lemon juice on the pieces of fruit (apple,
banana, pear, plum) before puréeing.
• If you wish to add pieces of fruit to the
ice-cream, sprinkle them with some sugar to
prevent hard ice crystals from forming inside
the pieces of fruit during the freezing process.
Alcohol
• Ice-cream mixtures containing alcohol must be
processed somewhat longer. The ice-cream will
not become as stiff as ice-cream without
alcohol.
Syrup
• If you make sorbet ice-cream frequently, you
can prepare the syrup in advance and keep it in
a tightly sealed bottle in the refrigerator.
To make syrup you need:
- a (stainless steel) pan;
- a stirring spoon;
- for 300 cc (10
3
⁄4 fl. oz) syrup: 200 cc (7 fl. oz.)
water and 200 g (7 oz.) fine sugar;
- for 450 cc (16 fl. oz.) syrup: 275 cc (10 fl. oz)
water and 275 g (10 oz.) fine sugar;
- Put the sugar and the water into the pan and
stir well.
- Put the pan on low heat while stirring constantly
to dissolve the sugar. Skim off any froth that
forms on the surface.
- Boil the sugar mixture for approx. 1 minute.
- Take the pan off the heat and allow the syrup to
cool.
Decorating and serving
• The quantities serve 4-5 persons, depending on
the presentation and the type of ice-cream.
• You can serve ice-cream in metal or glass
coupes, on metal, glass or crystal bowl or on
dessert plates. Depending on the type of icecream, you could also use fruit cut in halves
and hollowed out, such as melon, pineapple,
orange, lemon or grapefruit.
• It is advisable to chill the coupes, bowls or
hollowed-out fruit in the freezer just prior to
serving, so that the ice-cream will melt less
rapidly when served.
• Some types of ice-cream (e.g. coffee, mocha
and chocolate ice-cream) are less dense than
other types. It is best to take these types of icecream out of the Ice-Cream Maker and chill
them in the freezer half an hour before serving.
• You can make ice-cream balls using an icecream scoop. The scoop must be perfectly
clean. Dip the scoop in water before scooping
out the ice-cream and the balls of ice-cream will
be nice and smooth. If you wish to present the
ice-cream in a coupe, it is best to put the balls
of ice-cream in the freezer for half an hour. This
will prevent the ice-cream from melting during
the decorating process.
• Ice-cream lends itself well to combinations with
pastry, such as profiteroles, cake, meringues
and crèpes.
• Decorate the ice-cream with e.g. whipped
cream, beaten egg white, sauces or custard.
• Mix the whipped cream with some finely
chopped nuts before decorating.
• Take more fruit than indicated by the recipe and
use this to decorate the ice-cream. You can
also use candied fruit, cocktail cherries or
soaked raisins. The taste of the fruit is improved
if soaked in a liqueur.
The ice-cream can also be combined with a
suitable liqueur.
• Ice-cream can be decorated with chocolate
leaves, grated chocolate, nougat, bonbons,
shredded coconut or chopped nuts (walnuts,
hazelnuts, slivered almonds, pistachio nuts).
• The ice-cream will look even more festive if you
decorate it with one or more wafers, biscuits,
macaroons or rolled wafers.
Sauces
• Sauces and syrup add a nice touch to the icecream. There are many different possibilities:
sweet sauces, fruit sauces, fruit syrup.
• There are many types of ready-to-use sauces
on the market. But, as is true for ice-cream:
home-made sauces are tastier.
• Sauces can easily be prepared a few days in
advance and stored in the refrigerator or
freezer.
Hot sauces
• If you wish to serve a hot sauce, heat it up
slowly. It is best to chill the ice-cream
thoroughly in the freezer before pouring the hot
sauce over the top. The sauces described
below can also be served cold.
• Serve the hot sauce either separately as an
accompaniment to the ice-cream, or pour it over
the ice-cream just before serving.
Cherry sauce
- Put the juice of one tin of cherries (stoned) in a
pan, together with the grated peel of one
orange and one lemon.
- Allow the mixture to simmer over a low heat for
10 minutes.