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The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments
Ripe seasonal fruits. Fragrant vanilla, toasted nuts, and spices. Heavy cream and bright liqueurs. Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate. Every luscious flavor imaginable is grist for the chill in The Perfect Scoop, pastry chef David Lebovitz’s gorgeous guide to the pleasures of homemade ice creams, sorbets, granitas, and more.
With an emphasis on intense and sophistica...more
With an emphasis on intense and sophistica...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by Ten Speed Press
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I have a bunch of ice cream cookbooks already. Perfect Scoop has quickly earned it's promotion from the ice cream shelf to the favorites shelf. To start with the book has more than 100 recipes, and drop-dead gorgeous pictures of ice cream, aka, food porn. Add to that a wonderful assortment of interesting flavors, a top notch review of ingredients and their function in an ice cream recipe, plus tips and resources for hard-to-find ingredients, this book has delivered ultra-high quality frozen dess...more
Aug 05, 2007
Alison
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people with ice cream makers
Shelves:
cookbooks
This book has a ton of delicious & unusual ice cream recipes (as well as granitas, sorbets and sherbets). They are, almost exclusively, French/custard-style - this means that you have to cook a custard, chill it, and then freeze your ice cream. This is not as difficult as you may initially think while reading the instructions, it simply requires you to be on top of things and able to multitask well in the kitchen (or otherwise get everything set up before you start). A handful of flavors are...more
este livro é incrível -- ele tem muitas receitas super facinhas, e outras pro confeiteiro mais experiente; tem sorvetes, frozen yogurts, gelados, sorbets, e não só isso, mas também acompanhamentos deliciosos, como pralinés, brownies, cookies, caldas de chocolate, de frutas, marshmallow, casquinhas de sorvete... tudo pra deixar o seu sorvete maravilhosamente divino! as fotos são poucas, mas lindíssimas, e as receitas são muitas e todas parecem ótimas. agora só me falta fazer muitos docinhos gosto...more
I feel a bit weird including this on my shelf, as it's not the type of book that one would read cover-to-cover. However, I got an ice cream maker for my birthday last summer (the ice cream maker attachment for the KitchenAid stand mixer—totally recommended), and I checked this book from the library. And rechecked it. And rechecked it. And finally got my own copy for Christmas.
I've tried at least half a dozen recipes from The Perfect Scoop, and I've yet to experience a single fail—everything fro...more
I've tried at least half a dozen recipes from The Perfect Scoop, and I've yet to experience a single fail—everything fro...more
Feb 15, 2009
Beth
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Just about anyone willing to go the extra mile for good food
A bit beyond the typical Goodreads scope, but oh my oh my, this book has led me to make the best ice cream. I mean the BEST ice cream I've had in my life--the Aztec "Hot" Chocolate Ice Cream--and I even omitted the brandy. I am eager to try the many traditional flavors and the likes of Olive Oil Ice Cream or Pear Pecorino Ice Cream or Fresh Fig Ice Cream. I can also vouch for the superiority of their granitas--my favorite--Pink Grapefruit!
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Smirk, nay, chortle in the direction of the gourmet pints of ice cream in your local grocer's freezer case. You'll never be tempted by their syrupy-sweetness again once you've taken on the elegant, easily-followed recipes in this book, yielding the familiar flavors elevated to a sublime level, or wild novelties soon to be essential to your dessert repertoire. Lebovitz is my favorite dessert writer, and as a bonus, he's a born writer, charming and wry in his introductions and serving recommendati...more
Cookbook. Everything frozen and frosty, plus sauces, cones, toppings, and mix-ins. A comprehensive guide to frozen desserts, plus a neat tutorial on how to make custards, v. important. Goes through the basic ingredients and the work each one does in the final product, still won't tell me exactly how to substitute corn syrup for sugar. Why is this a gigantic secret?! Lots and lots of beautiful photographs. The recipes include traditional favorites, and non-traditional surprises like green tea ice...more
Apr 15, 2013
Maze Branch
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Each month we'll ask you to make two recipes from a designated cookbook: we'll choose the first recipe and ask you to make it at home; you'll choose the second and bring it to our discussion to share. We'll meet to discuss both recipes and to sample the one you chose. We'll have a potluck of tasty treats! This month's selections are People's Pops by Nathalie Jordi, David Carrell, and Joel Horowitz and Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz, and our recipe choices are Strawberries & Cream from Peopl...more
My son gave this to me for Christmas, smart boy. The Perfect Scoop is the perfect mix of classic, nouveau, and sentimental favorite ice cream recipes. I can't wait to try the vietnamese coffee, aztec hot chocolate, malted milk, peach, raspberry swirl, cheesecake, white chocolate, basil, and avocado ice creams, the gianduja gelato, green apple & sparkling cider sorbet, and champagne-cassis granita, um, I might as well just list the index, they all sound so good. I love the toppings, mix ins,...more
"Holy crap, I already gain weight by looking at the pictures!" was the first thoght that came into my mind when I hold this book into my hands. This is the ultimate ice cream bible. I had a look into many other books about making ice cream, and this one was just perfect. You'll get the basics and advanced tips so (if you want) could even create your very own recipe. You really don't need though - the book does not only contain all kinds of ice creams (like sorbets, semifredo, frozen yoghurt) but...more
When I first reviewed this book, I gave it five stars based on its comprehensiveness and the unusual flavors I was excited to try. And after having this book for two years, I'd have to say that it still deserves five stars.
This is the ultimate ice cream recipe book, the Holy Grail of ice cream if you will. Not only does it have tried and true favorites like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and shows you different approaches to making them (e.g. Philadelphia style which is with no eggs, and custar...more
This is the ultimate ice cream recipe book, the Holy Grail of ice cream if you will. Not only does it have tried and true favorites like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and shows you different approaches to making them (e.g. Philadelphia style which is with no eggs, and custar...more
I picked this up because while searching ice cream recipes on the internet, both the chocolate and vanilla I picked came from this book and they were wonderful! Lots of varieties to choose from, including plenty of Philadelphia style ice cream, which is my favorite. Plus, little witty anecdotes at the top of every recipe, which makes it that much more enjoyable to flip through. Nice pictures and several yummy sound ice creams. I'm thinking I need to buy this one. Yes, it's that good.
If you have any interest in making ice cream, this is a great place to start. Recipes range from classic to exotic, and the descriptions are a fun read.
I bought this book after trying the Roasted Banana Ice Cream recipe, which I saw in a blog. It was so delicious and so easy that I was hooked! It's now my favorite way to use up overripe bananas (beats banana bread).
I bought this book after trying the Roasted Banana Ice Cream recipe, which I saw in a blog. It was so delicious and so easy that I was hooked! It's now my favorite way to use up overripe bananas (beats banana bread).
The one thing I have never done in the kitchen is make ice cream. My mom made homemade Snickers ice cream every summer at our rented beach house. I always thought that ice cream was a mixture of frozen, churned, milk and cream. Not so! What my mother always made was actually Philadelphia style ice cream, not the custard based mixture that everyone else seems to like. I didn't know that there was a different name. The Philadelphia style is my favorite. If you've never made it, try it!
Beyond that...more
Beyond that...more
If you like ice cream and want to start making your own, I really couldn't recommend a better book. I first borrowed an ice cream maker and this book and made 12 ice creams flavors in 14 days. I am so not joking! I then got my own ice cream maker and bought this book. It is excellent.
Ok, so it's a cookbook-- but the little written introductions to each recipe are very entertaining. You can tell the author loves what he does. Love the book so far, will continue to try recipes throughout the summer. I do wish there were some gelato recipes included.
I truly want to make every single recipe in this book and you can rarely say that about a cookbook! The coffee ice cream was incredible, the ginger ice cream was to die for and I'm getting ready to make the Strawberry Sour Cream this weekend. Exciting!
Many, many great recipes for frozen desserts of all kinds, from ice creams to sherbets to granitas. Lebovitz even includes chapters on mix-in's (and he has some really creative homemade ones) and sauces! This is definitely on my "To Buy" list now.
I marked it down a star because there's no pistachio ice cream or gelato recipe here!
I've made the strawberry and the ginger and they are both to die for. I think maybe lemon next? Or olive oil? Or goat cheese? Or tiramisu?
I've made the strawberry and the ginger and they are both to die for. I think maybe lemon next? Or olive oil? Or goat cheese? Or tiramisu?
First found Lebovitz's blog to make my favorite salty caramel ice cream, but now am addicted to using these recipes for more-than-once-per-annum ice cream making! Today--tiramisu with mocha ripple.
Try the vanilla frozen yogurt for sure. I'm dying to try the chocolate raspberry ice cream. (There are some crazy ones in here such as basil sorbet. Probably good though).
I love this book! I think I flip through it every day. It has amazing homemade ice cream recipes, stir ins, toppings, sorbets, granitas, sherbets, cones, etc...
Love this book! Every recipe I've tried has come out perfectly. Some recipes are much more intense than others, so I would suggest starting with the sorbets - so easy!
I made the oatmeal raisin ice cream and it was delicious! I wish I didn't have to return this book to the library so I could try out more recipes.
Good intro to ice cream making and a bunch of odds and ends in the mix-ins. Definitely gives you enough to start making your own recipes, too.
I love this book. I make the coffee ice cream and vanilla frozen yogurt often. Straightforward directions in the recipes, magnificent results.
Great recipes. The ice creams we have made have turned out so delicious! I think our favorite is the chocolate hazelnut...so yummy.
How can you go wrong with these? Let me tell you: if you try the Pear-Pecorino, don't add 2x the amount of cheese in the recipe ;)
Holy crap! I just discovered this guy--am planning to make Peanut Butter Cookies with Salted Caramel with the ladies tomorrow night!
Buy an ice cream maker as an excuse to get this book. Alternatively, buy this book as an excuse to get an ice cream maker.
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