ice cream

[ndofu]

How much ice cream can I get from a litre of milk?

[chinois]

Just milk, no cream?

[ndofu]

chinois, thanks for asking. My son is an agric student and they are doing a project on diversification in dairy farms so trying to work out how much ice cream they would get from a litre of whole milk. I guess they will have to think about how much cream they would get from the same amount. Any ideas would be helpful. I have looked up recipes but they don't help much.

[idalovett]

I make my own ice cream using 1/2 pint whipping cream, eggs, sugar and flavourings and it fills 3/4 of an empty litre cannister. Why doesn't your son contact an ice cream manufacturer (somewhere local, not Walls) and ask them? I think that's the only place he'd get the type of answer that he needs. But I do think that as you have to add content to milk/cream/what have you/ then you will end up with more volume for the end result so it has to be more than a litre I would have thought.

[ndofu]

Thanks for that idalovett, that is exactly what I had suggested to him. My own ice-cream recipe only uses double cream but I had looked up some recipes which seemed to suggest you would get more volim than you start with. I justt wonmdered if there was a formula anyone had.

[idalovett]

if you want my recipe then shout and I'll post it.

[chinois]

My recipe uses whole milk and double cream. This wont help you much but i'm pretty sure you need at least some cream to make ice cream.

[ndofu]

Thanks everyone for all your help.