Recipe#8792

Title: Green Tea Icecream 02

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: lezliel@farallon.com (Lezlie Lee) 
 Subject: Green Tea Ice Cream 
 Message-ID: <1994Dec30.162042.5084@midway.uchicago.edu> 
 Organization: Farallon Computing 
 Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 16:20:42 GMT 

1/3 cup water
 1/3 cup sugar
 1/2 teaspoon mirin (sweet cooking rice wine)
 2   teaspoons matcha (powdered green tea)
 1/2 cup milk
 1/2 cup half and half
 combine water and sugar in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring, until
 the sugar melts, and simmer the syrup for 5 minutes.  Stir in the mirin 
 and remove from heat.  In a separate bowl, mix I tablespoon of the syrup 
 with the powdered green tea, then add that mixture to the syrup in the saucepan,
 and stir until evenly mixed.  Add milk and half and half, pour into an 
 ice cream freezer, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
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 Green Tea Ice Cream with no Ice Cream Freezer
 1/2  cup sugar
 1 1/2 cups water
 1 Tablespoon green tea powder
 few drops green food coloring
 1 cup whipping cream, whipped
 2 egg whites
 2 tablespoons sugar
 Boil the sugar and water to make a syrup.  In a bowl, mix green tea powder
 with syrup, beating well to dissove.  Cool.  Cover the bowl and freeze
 for 3 hours, or until it has frozen to about an inch from the sides of the
 bowl.  Remove from freezer and beat the mixture to break it up.  Return to
 the freezer until it has frozen to about an inch from the sides of the bowl,
 remove and beat the mixture again.  Put it back in the freezer until it is
 the consistency of sherbet, then add the whipped whipping cream and mix well.
 Add green food color.  Freeze for an hour.  Beat the egg whites until stiff,
 sprinkle in the 2 tablespoons sugar, and beat well.  Combine with frozen
 tea mixture, and then return the whole thing to the freezer and freeze
 until serving time.