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I got a 1-quart Donvier (non-electric) for $5 at a yard sale (last year?),
made chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream with it recently, and it worked
beautifully.

But I have to wonder - why DOES anyone with a freezer need to use an ice
cream machine to make it? Does it have to do with the texture? If so, what?

Seems to me one could just take a plastic container, put in the cooked
mixture, stick it in the freezer and take it out to stir for a few seconds
every hour. Yes, that WOULD mean hanging around the house for about four
hours or so, but other than that, I don't know what the problem is. (With
the Donvier, it took maybe only half an hour of occasional stirring before I
transferred the ice cream to a plastic box and put it in the freezer for
three hours, according to the Williams-Sonoma recipe. Of course, I was free
to leave the house once I did that.)

I'm trying the peppermint stick recipe from The Joy of Cooking right now,
but that has a higher percentage of milk, so I'm guessing it won't be that
great - but at least it has no eggs and didn't require any cooking. (I DID
have to stick the Donvier, with the mixture, back in the freezer after some
stirring - the mixture wasn't nearly as thick as with the other recipe. I
left it there for three hours, took it out and it was still somewhat liquid
in the middle, so I stirred it again every 15 minutes or so, three times,
and only then emptied the Donvier into the plastic box to put back in the
freezer.)


Lenona.

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You'd need to do more stirring than that.

When I was a kid, I made lemon sherbet for guests. I no longer have the
recipe. I thought that it used sweetened condensed milk, but maybe not. I do
remember that it used the lemon zest as well as the juice. And it was poured
into ice cube trays which at the time were metal ones. Had to take the
frozen cubes out of the freezer 2 or 3 times and put through the blender. We
had no food processor.

This recipe is the same concept although most likely not the same exact
recipe.

http://www.food.com/recipe/lemon-ice...m-maker-240173