The Acid Test – July 1995
If you can’t do justice to Vanilla, you might as well pack your bags.
As the Monsoon of summer 1995 set in, we set about setting some realistic standards and goals. The primary has to be perfecting a beautiful Vanilla Ice Cream that does justice to this flavour from heaven above.
The three of us huddle over our books, decisions, methods, ingredients, weather conditions, heat, freezing time, and various variants and permutations. It helps that one of us (usually Ali) is normally calm enough to keep the engines running and the negativity from rearing its ugly head.
We keep working on our Vanilla with continued experiments and re-working and modification of recipes. The depressing thought of using preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilisers and nasty stuff like lecithin and gum loomed as a dark and depressing prospect.
If these experiments didn’t work out, we could have reached a massive, insurmountable roadblock. The end of the road loomed when we had not even taken three steps down the road.
