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Julie · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: Home made ice cream - or not?

I forgot to mention this, it was something I found out a few months ago.
Just about everyone knows of and recommends the ice cream shop in Cullen don't they?
Well, we were in there a couple of months ago buying ice cream and I asked which of the ice creams was definitely nut free. The lady was most helpful and said that the only one they could guarantee was nut free was the whippy stuff out of the machine (made up from powder stuff as you probably know). 'What about your home made ice cream' I asked?
'Well, I don't think it has nuts in', she said, 'I'll get the carton and you can look at the list of ingredients'.
She showed me a 1 litre tetrapack which was what they mix it up from.

Now call me picky, but shouldn't home made mean made from scratch on the premises?
Doesn't it convey the impression of a product created with fresh eggs, milk and cream?
I wonder just how many people would still be happy to pay that bit extra if they knew it was a chemical concoction that came out of a Tetrapack?
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zombiecazz · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

Yes. I would expect home made to be home made.
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lor138 · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:

I would be really disappointed and feel a bit duped to get 'plastic' ice cream!!
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Julie · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject:

I would imagine that they haven't really thought about this too hard. I can't see it being deliberate subterfuge or she wouldn't have volunteered to show me that carton.
I know that all food producers (retailers, caterers, hoteliers etc..)are required by law to be able to provide a list of every ingredient in everything they sell. As she had to get the carton, it wouldn't seem that they have made these lists either.
I could even believe that in this age of covenience foods that someone could really believe that adding something to the contents of a Tetrapack amounted to making it from scratch.
I have got so cynical over the years that I tend to question everything I hear, see or read and things like this just make me worse :?

I have a recipe for ice cream 'to die for'.
Does anyone want me to put it on the foody section?? It is a great way to use up your eggs girls but you may need to let out your waistbands.
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monkey nuts · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

Yes please Julie...yummy

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Julie · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject:

I will do it on Monday after the kids have gone home and my night out tomorrow. We're going to see the Old Blind Dogs at Lossiemouth on Sunday night

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Maidenstone · Neepster Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 303

I am SOOOOOOOO disappointed. It is my very favourite ice cream and they always said in the shop that it was home-made, but I didn't realise it was out of a carton. That's that then!
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Julie · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:15 am Post subject:

They do also sell the Rizza's ice cream, it's the one in the tubs in the glass fronted freezer. Be warned though, it also contains transfats.
I went questing for a brand which didn't contain any and read the ingredients on every tub in the supermarket.
To my dismay, even the Mackie's luxury one has them in and I couldn't find one without them. In fairness to them I must say, I do know that Mackies have a dairy herd and make their ice cream from their own milk and local eggs, my friend's son used to work there.
It doesn't matter though, once you've tried the ice cream recipe I posted, you won't want to eat commercial ice cream any more. 8)
Has anyone tried it out yet?
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Maidenstone · Neepster Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 303

I will try and check out Mitchells ice cream from the Dairy in Inverurie.
You would think that in this day and age Mackies and Rizzas could leave stuff like that out!
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Ina · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:54 am Post subject: