Help me decipher this recipe!

[KristiB]

Is it calling for one liter of milk and one liter of heavy cream or one liter of milk and one tsp of heavy cream?? I've never made ice cream before.

Sour Cream Ice-Cream

by Chef Paul Owens

Ingredients:

* 1lt milk
* 1lb granulated sugar
* ½ vanilla pod
* juice from 2 lemons
* lt heavy cream
* 6 egg yolks
* 1lb 2 oz sour cream

Method:
In a medium bowl put the 6 yolks, 2 oz milk, sugar and the seeds from the pod. Whisk for 3-4 minutes until thick. Scald the milk, cream and pod. Pour the mixture over the yolks, gradually whisking.
Return the custard to the pot and cook on low heat stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until thickened slightly. Do not overcook or allow the custard to boil. Remove from heat. Put into a bowl over an ice bath. When cool, stir in the sour cream and lemon juice.
Place the mixture into an ice-cream maker, churn for about 20 minutes and freeze.

Source: http://recipes.caribseek.com/Paul_Owens/sour-cream-ice-cream.shtml

[little_bopeep]

Considering the amounts of all the other ingredients, if I were making it, I'd go with the litre of heavy cream. I could be wrong, but that's what it looks like. I can't imagine a recipe with all that dairy needing only a tsp of cream.

Let us know how it goes. :)

[shoezoo]

I would think with all the sugar in the recipe it must be 1 ltr. of heavy cream as well.

[Grace]

Where did the recipe come from - nevermind I just looked at your post and you posted the source.... Anyway, it looks like a typo to me - where whoever typed it left off the amount in liters - it could be 1/2 lt or 1/4 lt or 1 lt or whatever. I will check around the internet and see if I can find it elsewhere. Otherwise, I would either email the website and ask them, or guess at 1lt. But it seems a strange recipe to me anyway. They call for everything in metric, but then in the instructions they switch over to ounces (mix the eggs with 2 ounces of milk). What a strangely written recipe....

[sneezles]

I'm going to disagree about it being a typo. I think a litre of cream would be way too much liquid considering it's 3 cups of sour cream and a litre of milk.

Compare it to this recipe from Epicurious:

SOUR CREAM ICE CREAM

2 cups half-and-half
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
8 large egg yolks
2 cups (1 pint) sour cream

In heavy saucepan combine half-and-half, 3/4 cup sugar, and vanilla bean and bring just to a boil. Remove pan from heat. in a bowl whisk together egg yolks and remaining 1/4 cup sugar and hot half-and-half mixture in a stream, whisking. Return custard to pan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until 170°F. on a candy thermometer.

Remove pan from heat. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into custard until combined well and discard pod. Stir sour cream into custard until combined well and strain through a fine sieve into a bowl. Chill custard until cold and freeze in an ice-cream maker.

Makes about 1 quart.

Gourmet
January 1996

Epicurious.com © CondéNet, Inc. All rights reserved.

[ljt2r]

I'm going to disagree about it being a typo. I think a litre of cream would be way too much liquid considering it's 3 cups of sour cream and a litre of milk.

Compare it to this recipe from Epicurious:

SOUR CREAM ICE CREAM

2 cups half-and-half
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
8 large egg yolks
2 cups (1 pint) sour cream

In heavy saucepan combine half-and-half, 3/4 cup sugar, and vanilla bean and bring just to a boil. Remove pan from heat. in a bowl whisk together egg yolks and remaining 1/4 cup sugar and hot half-and-half mixture in a stream, whisking. Return custard to pan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until 170°F. on a candy thermometer.

Remove pan from heat. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into custard until combined well and discard pod. Stir sour cream into custard until combined well and strain through a fine sieve into a bowl. Chill custard until cold and freeze in an ice-cream maker.

Makes about 1 quart.

Gourmet
January 1996

Epicurious.com © CondéNet, Inc. All rights reserved.

Hey Sneezles, have you made that? I love sour cream in dessert and it looks awesome. And FWIW (but I am NO ice cream making expert), I agree with Sneezles re: amounts).

[sneezles]

Hey Sneezles, have you made that? I love sour cream in dessert and it looks awesome. And FWIW (but I am NO ice cream making expert), I agree with Sneezles re: amounts).

No I haven't and had never heard of sour cream ice cream until this thread but may just have to since we also love sour cream dessert or otherwise.

[KristiB]

I think I like Sneezles recipe better.