Ice Cream and Other Frozen Dairy Products
ICE CREAM AND OTHER FROZEN DAIRY PRODUCTS The delicious frozen dairy products of today evolved from the flavored ices popular with the Romans in the 4th century B.C. The hand-crank freezer, patented in 1846, led to the establishment of the first commercial ice cream plant in Baltimore in 1851. Frozen yogurt was introduced in the late 1960s, and has since enjoyed increased popularity. VARIETIES ■ Ice Cream is made by stirring, ■ Sherbet contains 1 to 2% while freezing, a pasteurized mix milk fat and 2 to 5% total milk of one or more dairy ingredients— solids. Water, flavoring (e.g., fruit, milk, concentrated fat-free chocolate, spices), sweetener and milk, cream, condensed milk— stabilizers are added. Sherbet has sweetening agents, flavorings, more sugar than ice cream. stabilizers, emulsifiers and ■ Frozen Yogurt is made by optional egg or egg yolk solids freezing a mixture of pasteurized or other ingredients. Federal milk, with or without other milk standards require ice cream to products, flavorings, seasonings, contain a minimum of 10% milk stabilizers, emulsifiers and lactic fat (about 7 grams (g) of fat per acid cultures. Because there are 1 /2 cup serving) and 20% total no specific standards for frozen milk solids by weight. Some yogurt, its ingredients and premium ice creams contain characteristics can vary. Frozen 16% milk fat. Added flavoring yogurt is pasteurized before must be identified on the label as freezing so it generally does not naturally flavored (i.e., raspberry contain live, active cultures like ice cream) or artificially flavored many unfrozen yogurts. Nonfat, (i.e., raspberry-flavored ice cream lowfat and full fat varieties of or artificially flavored raspberry frozen yogurt are available.
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