Tells how to use and take care of ice cream machines, offers recipes for sorbets, ice creams, sherberts, and sauces, and gives tips on serving

Nothing beats homemade ice cream, and making it from scratch is a charming summertime tradition whose time has come again. Ice Creams & Sorbets offers nearly 50 recipes for simple and sophisticated frozen desserts: old-fashioned classics such as vanilla bean, strawberry, and bittersweet chocolate; contemporary delights such as Lavender-Honey Ice Cream and Lemongrass-Wine Ice; and sinfully exquisite treats like White Chocolate-Framboise Truffle Gelato. With handy ingredient guides, serving tips, and the rundown on how to select and use ice cream makers, this fabulous book is a recipe for delicious new-fashioned fun.

Discusses basic techniques and ingredients for making frozen desserts, and includes recipes for such treats as pear champagne sorbet, strawberry frozen yogurt, three-fruit ice cream, and orange gelato.

This comprehensive bible of frozen desserts includes recipes for ice cream, sorbet, gelati, and granita, along with a history of ice cream making. World-renowned frozen dessert experts Caroline and Robin Weir have spent more than twenty years passionately pursuing everything ice cream. After tracing ice cream’s evolution from Asia, the Middle East, France, Italy, and America, studying its chemistry as well as its history, this husband and wife food writing team offer a comprehensive cookbook including four hundred recipes and tips for making ice cream, both with and without a machine. With insightful commentary, historical context, and mouthwatering photographs, this definitive cookbook covers the classics, with recipes for chocolate and vanilla bean ice cream, as well as frozen adventures such as green tea ice cream, chocolate brownie ice cream, tequila granita, and basil-flavored lemon sorbet. You’ll find the perfect flavor for every occasion, as well as all the traditional ice cream sides—such as oven-baked wafer cones, crisp almond cookies, and decadent butterscotch and chocolate fudge sauces. An indispensible guide for home chefs and frozen dessert aficionados, Ice Creams, Sorbets & Gelati is “a modern classic for ice cream lovers” (Italia Magazine). “There’s nothing more cooling on a warm day than a sophisticated sorbet or glamourous granita. Turn ice into a stylish treat, with these fabulous recipes.” —Vegan Living “Everything you ever wanted to know about frozen desserts but didn’t know where to turn. . . . A guide of Biblical proportions with recipes for everything you could possibly want in [the frozen dessert] category.” —The Irish Daily Mail

Get the perfect scoop every time with these delicious recipes for homemade ice cream, gelatos, sorbets, and other sweet accompaniments.

Features more than two hundred recipes representing treats from around the world, along with a history of frozen desserts and serving tips.