Ice cream is a versatile pudding, being enjoyed on its own, flavoured with exotic fruits, spices and wine. This title offers a wide variety of recipes and tells you everything you need to know about producing delicious desserts that come straight from the freezer. It includes classics such as traditional vanilla ice cream and fresh fruit sorbets but also ventures onto more intriguing styles and flavours such as the sophisticated zabaglione semi freddo and an indulgent baked Alaska. The health chapter combines taste with the calorie counter in recipes like peach freezes and a honey yoghurt and cinnamon ice cream.

Author Biography

Shona Crawford Poole is the food editor of Country Living. Prior to this she was food and cookery editor, then travel editor of The Times. Her books include The New Times Cookbook and The Sunday Times Cook's Companion.