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The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!
Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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To: proud_2_B_texasgal
Good night!!
50,281
posted on
07/02/2003 2:24:44 PM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom
With apologies to Ruthy:
A REALLY COLD ONE: Beer Ice Cream
Beer in ice cream often elicits nothing more than "eeeeuu" from disgusted devotees of the pure cold creamy dessert.
But as many brew pubs and restaurants are discovering, beer in ice cream can make a refreshing change of pace from that ubiquitous brewpub finale, cheesecake. Instead, try a scoop of raspberry lambic sorbet served in a stemmed Belgian glass... or a triple decker treat, a la Fred Eckhardt: fudgy brownie, vanilla ice cream and porter poured on top!
Sweet cream, whipped and frozen smooth, is a perfect foil for malty, slightly bitter flavors of beer. Blended with chocolate, or tropical fruits, beer can be a good stand-in for other liquids in the typical recipe for ice cream.
Most ice creams start with a cream or dairy base: skimmed evaporated milk, custard, whole milk, yogurt or half and half.
Add a sweetener, such as white or brown sugar, or even a reduced wort or malt extract syrup.
Blend with a binder of some sort--eggs, gelatin, cornstarch or rice flour--especially if the recipe will incorporate fresh ripe berries or cut fruit. Cook the blend (a necessary step if raw eggs are used).
Add other flavors (vanilla, chocolate, beer), stir well and chill. For best results, the cream base should be well chilled before freezing.
"It's a little tricky to make a smooth, creamy malt ice cream from reduced wort," said Darren Chadderdon, a former chef at Gordon Biersch's Palo Alto brewpub in a phone interview. "If there is too much sugar in the wort, it will interfere with the fine ice crystal formation that you want in a frozen dessert." Chadderdon experimented with pure malt ice creams, as well as a Maibock Wine Sorbet. "The wine added another layer of flavor to the sorbet, which made it even better."
Other chefs have experimented with freezing fruit lambics for refreshing ices, or intermezzo sorbets served between courses. In Jamaica, I once sampled a delicious granita made by freezing Dragon Stout with sweetened lime juice syrup. At Chicago's Goose Island the chef devised a trio of Timmermans sorbets: kriek, peche and framboise. Charles Finkel has tasted Lindemans lambics made into sorbets at beer tasting dinners held across the country.
Brewpubs aside, other restaurateurs develop frozen desserts with beer. At the April 2002 Craft Brewers Conference in Cleveland, the Metropolitan Cafe restaurant created a special malted vanilla ice cream made with swirls of golden malt extract.
Still other brewers prefer to drink, not eat, their beer. Brendan Moylan of California, says, "I'd rather have a beer with dessert, than a dessert made with beer. For instance, a raspberry-infused beer goes great with a chocolate and raspberry dessert."
Remember to follow manufacturers directions to freeze recipes (crushed ice really makes a difference in the old salt-and-ice bucket makers). Prepare the recipe 12 to 24 hours ahead of serving time, to let the ice cream ripen in the freezer.
To: Scott from the Left Coast
Yikes! Those red letters!
Beer ice cream does not sound refreshing...
50,283
posted on
07/02/2003 2:27:32 PM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom
mmmmm.....chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
To: Overtaxed
Keep talkin' sis, I'm with you all the way! LOL
50,285
posted on
07/02/2003 2:29:10 PM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom
I'm being good....watching Clarke and sipping green tea with ginger. Maybe after supper....
To: Scott from the Left Coast
Oh, thanks lots for that recipe...just kidding :-)
50,287
posted on
07/02/2003 2:33:14 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: Overtaxed
My mom and dad are taking the boys to a 4th celebration of some sort tonight...I wonder what Steve and I will have for supper?
50,288
posted on
07/02/2003 2:34:45 PM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom
Ice cream?
Dang! Out of leftovers....guess I'll have to cook something.
To: Overtaxed
I gotta get the boys ready to go. See you later!
50,290
posted on
07/02/2003 2:42:55 PM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: 2Jedismom; Sam Cree
You guys sound awful un-adventerous.
To: Corin Stormhands; 2Jedismom
Ya'll are both such fine and commendable hobbittses.
To: Scott from the Left Coast
"You guys sound awful un-adventerous."To tell you the truth, I can get adventurous enough after drinking beer without adding ice cream to it :-)
50,293
posted on
07/02/2003 2:57:04 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: My back yard
Egads...don't call Corin a hobbit...mayhem with an axe will ensue!
A double-bladed Dwarf's axe!
To: Sam Cree
Ah, I see now...yes the cream and sugar stuff seem an awful waste of space in the pint glass.
To: Corin Stormhands
I'm sitting here thinking my iris bulbs have washed into the neighbor's yard...Didn't mulch em, huh?
To: Scott from the Left Coast
Well, beer is good in batter, so why not in ice cream? Seems very weird, though. And we used to boil shrimp in beer. And some places fry ice cream.
50,297
posted on
07/02/2003 3:08:05 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: Sam Cree
Now that is so...who does Halibut anymore without a good beer batter? Which gives one an idea for pancakes! No more Bloody Mary's for hangovers -- Beer Pancakes!
To heck with the jobs stuff, I'm gonna be a millionaire!
To: 2Jedismom
Hey, make sure you watch for free scoop night at Baskin Robbins.
To: My back yard; 2Jedismom
Well, thank you for the compliment.
But I believe 2J is a Lady of Rohan and I am a bit Dwarvish.
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