Half-and-half!

@CanadianLori (& all you lovely lot) please can you sort out a problem I'm having with making ice cream? What exactly is half-and-half?

Thanks in advance

 

To the best of my knowledge half and half is, Half whole milk and Half Cream (cream thick that you would whip up for a trifle topping or on Strawberries
so half a pint of whole milk and half a pint of thick cream (or quantity you want to use)

Regards Jack

 

Thanks @Jack McHammocklashing, that's a great help

 

@Beckie76 Its rice n chips here in Wales ....not sure that there's a ice cream flavour thou

 

I will make some rice & chip ice cream especially for you!

 

Half and half surely means equal quantities of two ingredients.

 

Yes but which two? The ingredients says 600ml of half & half, no explanation of what it is , I thought I was missing something but when I asked four people at work they had no idea what it was either!

 

Ohj right, never made ice cream so dont know then.

The recipe was obviously written by a complete idiot.

not one of Jamie Oliver's is it?

 

Sorry for the slow response. Minimum 12% maximum 18%butterfat content

 

No not Jamie Oliver, it's in my new kitchen aid recipe book!

I've made pink elderflower sorbet before that was really yummy full of sugar & had me bouncing off the walls

 

I wonder if buttermilk would be our equivalent to butterfat? I think tomorrow I must have a play around & see what works best .

 

That makes less sense, than half and half of god knows what?

 

What you call whole milk is 3%butterfat here. what we call whipping cream is 40% b.f., so the half and half is ? Hope that gives a marker .. ?

 

Thanks @CanadianLori, that's much clearer .

 

[QUOTE 1015615, member: 13"]That makes less sense, than half and half of god knows what?[/QUOTE]


What we call "whipping cream" is 40%butterfat, so maybe the original was 20%but manufacturers started shaving that back?