5.1 Ice Crystalline Products

Apricot Mousse

Soften gelatin in water in custard cup.  Set cup in hot water until gelatin dissolves.  Stir gelatin into puree.  Combine cream and salt in chilled bowl.  Beat cream until it begins to thicken.  Gradually add sugar and beat until it forms soft peaks.  Fold into apricot mixture.  Pour into 1 pint container, cover, label and freeze.

Mousse: Whipped cream, sweeteners, and flavors rich in fat and air, may contain gelatin.

Fruit Mousse

Soak gelatin in 1 tbsp. cold water, then dissolve in 2 tbsp. boiling water.  Combine fruit, salt and sugar.  Add dissolved gelatin.  Chill 30 minutes and add lemon juice.  Beat whipping cream until thickened, but not stiff.  Fold into fruit and gelatin mixture.  Pour into 1 pint container, cover, label and freeze.

Cranberry Ice

Combine water, sugar, and salt; boil until sugar dissolves.  Cool; add cranberry and lemon juices.  Pour 2 cups into loaf pan, cover with foil, label and freeze.  Freeze the remainder using a electric ice cream freezer, directions below.

Prepare ice crystalline products with an ice cream freezer.

Directions for operation of electric ice cream freezer:

1. Wash and rinse freezer can, dasher, and lid.
2. Place cooled mixture into freezer can.  Fit in dasher and adjust cover.
3. Place freezer can in outer container and adjust  before adding ice and salt.
4. Using 1 part (volume) coarse rock salt to 6 parts crushed ice, distribute about 3 inches of ice in bottom of freezer; then add salt and ice in layers, packing ice and salt slightly higher than the level of mixture in the freezer can.
5. Turn on ice cream mixer 20-30 minutes.
6. Put mixture into 1 pint container, cover, label, freeze.

Vanilla Ice Cream

Combine half-and-half, sugar and vanilla.  Stir until sugar dissolves.  Stir in whipping cream.  Freeze, using an electric ice cream freezer.

Orange Milk Sherbet

Stir together orange zest and sugar.  Add lemon and orange juices; stir until sugar dissolves.  Stir mixture gradually into milk.  If the milk curdles slightly, it will not affect the texture of the frozen sherbet.  Freeze in ice cream freezer, according to directions above.

U.S. STANDARDS FOR COMMERCIAL FROZEN DAIRY DESSERTS

2022 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS **

Ice Cream:

contains nutritional sweeteners; must be at least 10% milk fat and 20% total milk solids or, if it contains bulky flavors (e.g. fruits), 8% milk fat and 16% total milk solids.  Weighs at least 4.5 pounds per gallon.

Sherbet:

contains nutritional sweeteners; must be between 1 and 2% milk fat and between 2 and 5% total milk solids.  Weighs at least 6 pounds per gallon.

** Some regulations may not apply to products labeled “reduced calorie” or “light”.

Characteristics of the standard product:

Ice crystals in frozen desserts should be small; however, size may vary between products, depending on the identify of the interfering ingredients and the methods of preparation.  For example, the crystal size of an ice is expected to be considerably larger than that of a mousse.  A frozen desserts should have flavor typical of the product and a spoonable yet firm consistency.  It should be smooth rather than grainy, with body appropriate to the product.

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