• pistachio ice cream

    From JIM WELLER@1:123/140 to MICHAEL LOO on Sunday, November 18, 2018 22:42:00
    Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus <=-

    NB > So how do they get away with calling it pistachio ice cream
    when the nuts they put in it are almonds.... That's usually
    called pistachio nut ice cream, rather than pistachio ice
    cream (which does have pistachio nuts in it)....

    If it has no pistachio at all, I've no idea.
    Maybe it's called pistachio because it's green.

    This thread got me wondering what is sold in Canada and what
    ingredients are allowed to be used. It turns out that pistachio ice
    cream here can contain pistachio nuts and/or natural and/or
    artificial flavouring,

    Baskin Robbins Canada labels their ice cream Pistachio Almond and
    the fine print says "Pistachio flavoured ice cream with roasted
    almonds". The ingredient list reads: Cream, Nonfat Milk, Roasted
    Almonds (Almonds, Safflower Oil or Canola Oil), Sugar, Corn Syrup,
    Whey Powder, Natural and Artificial Flavour (Derived from Barley), Stabiliser/Emulsifier Blend (Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum,
    Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Artificial Colour (Blue 1), Beta Carotene
    for Colour. So, no actual pistachios.

    Loblaw's Black Label pistachio ice cream on the other hand does have
    nuts so no disclaimers are required. It contains just cream, milk,
    sugar, skim milk powder, frozen egg yolk, pistachio paste
    (pistachio, palm oil shortening), colour, salt.

    While perusing labels I got a hankering for some ice cream even
    though it's -24 out with blowing snow and so I picked up a carton
    of Breyers chocolate mint as it was on sale for $3.99 when every-
    thing else was $6.99, forgetting momentarily that I was boycotting
    them for their drop in quality after their last change of ownership.
    It was pretty nasty so I checked the label. First of all they had
    downsized the 2 liter carton again from 1.75 l to 1.66 l. Then I
    realized that I had actually purchased a "frozen dairy dessert". The
    damned stuff isn't even legally ice cream!

    On a different note, my bar was down to just vodka and the fridge had
    only cranberry cocktail, grapefruit juice and club soda with lime in
    it. As the the weather remained inclement I was reluctant to go out
    a second time so I started wondering how those things would taste
    together. It turns out to be a tasty mixture so I googled to
    see if it had a name and sure enough it does.

    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

    Title: The Seabreeze and variations
    Categories: Beverages, Alcohol, Fruit
    Yield: 1 serving

    1 1/2 oz Vodka
    4 oz Cranberry Juice
    1 oz Grapefruit Juice

    Pour into highball glass over ice cubes. Garnish with a wedge of
    lime. Recipe By: Mr. Boston

    I think they mean cranberry cocktail and not pure unsweetened
    cranberry juice.

    I played with various ratios and ended up preferring:

    1 oz Vodka
    2 oz cranberry juice
    2 oz Grapefruit juice

    And I didn't have a lime wedge handy so I turned one of these into
    a highball with 1 more oz vodka and 4 oz of club soda with lime.

    I also came across:

    The Bay Breeze

    1 oz Vodka
    2 oz Pineapple juice
    2 oz Cranberry juice

    Very similar, just sub pineapple for grapefruit.

    The next step will be repeating the experiment with gin.

    JW

    MMMMM

    Cheers

    Jim

    ... I have opinions about things!

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JIM WELLER on Thursday, November 22, 2018 16:09:00
    Quoting Jim Weller to Michael Loo on 11-18-18 21:42 <=-
    Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus <=-

    So how do they get away with calling it pistachio ice cream
    when the nuts they put in it are almonds.... That's usually
    called pistachio nut ice cream, rather than pistachio ice
    cream (which does have pistachio nuts in it)....
    If it has no pistachio at all, I've no idea.
    Maybe it's called pistachio because it's green.

    This thread got me wondering what is sold in Canada and what
    ingredients are allowed to be used. It turns out that pistachio ice
    cream here can contain pistachio nuts and/or natural and/or
    artificial flavouring,

    I suspect that the same obtains here....

    Baskin Robbins Canada labels their ice cream Pistachio Almond and
    the fine print says "Pistachio flavoured ice cream with roasted
    almonds". The ingredient list reads: Cream, Nonfat Milk, Roasted
    Almonds (Almonds, Safflower Oil or Canola Oil), Sugar, Corn Syrup,
    Whey Powder, Natural and Artificial Flavour (Derived from Barley), Stabiliser/Emulsifier Blend (Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum,
    Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Artificial Colour (Blue 1), Beta Carotene
    for Colour. So, no actual pistachios.

    That doesn't look at all like something I'd want to be eating....

    Loblaw's Black Label pistachio ice cream on the other hand does have
    nuts so no disclaimers are required. It contains just cream, milk,
    sugar, skim milk powder, frozen egg yolk, pistachio paste
    (pistachio, palm oil shortening), colour, salt.

    So they use real pistachios to make it, just don't have the whole nuts
    in there... that actually looks pretty good.... :) Pistachio paste
    sounds like a good way to flavor the ice cream... I wonder if that's how
    it used to be made....

    While perusing labels I got a hankering for some ice cream even
    though it's -24 out with blowing snow and so I picked up a carton
    of Breyers chocolate mint as it was on sale for $3.99 when every-
    thing else was $6.99, forgetting momentarily that I was boycotting
    them for their drop in quality after their last change of ownership.
    It was pretty nasty so I checked the label. First of all they had downsized the 2 liter carton again from 1.75 l to 1.66 l. Then I
    realized that I had actually purchased a "frozen dairy dessert". The damned stuff isn't even legally ice cream!

    There's a good reason for not buying Breyers any more... Was the carton
    you purchased also approaching (or past) its best by date....?

    ttyl neb

    ... AHA!!! I've finally got this ficts, fics, fixd...sigh.

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