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Ice Cream Articles
August 10, 2011
The ice cream business of Jim Capannari, which mainly sets on sugar, milk and butter fat still remains on its usual price although price increases of such ingredients.
The business which is based in Illinois and other colleagues of Capannari’s feel that they can’t pass to the consumers the price increases, claiming that consumers would only give so much in a behind economy, not even for high-end treats such like Capannari’s ice cream.
Capannari uttered that it’s the purpose of staying in business that becomes the bottom line of such situation. He went to his Chicago unit just to hang up a sign that explains why there is an increase of ten cents for the cones.
The high-fructose callus syrup costs increased over 22% and the prices of sugar also increased up to 20%. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the prices of milk have also increased last year to an average of 38%, so it’s not a question on the sudden increases of the raw materials of ice cream. However, the standard price of an ice cream, half of a gallon, has also risen to 7% that same time, according to the U.S. agency of Labor Statistics.
According to an specialist on the dairy business and a Penn State University economist Jim Dunn, some factors in the increase of prices for ice cream’s raw materials are much similar with those for food as a whole; this includes a weak dollar which makes products of America to be more cheap abroad, global demand, and the high cost of corn mostly fed to dairy cattle.
April 18, 2011
An ice cream van had to be rescued when it became wedged in the sand on a Somerset beach. The vehicle was in Burnham-on-Sea on Sunday when its back wheels sank into soft sand next to the jetty. A tractor belonging to the Burnham-on-Sea Area Rescue Boat (Barb) charity, which was nearby, pulled the ice cream van free. The van’s owner thanks his rescuers and said he had made a donation to Barb to help cover the expenses of the operation.
April 7, 2011
Sorbet is basically ice cream without cream, milk or egg yolk. It is a mixture of fruit juice and ice that is softer and grainier than ice cream flavor because it contains more ice. Sorbet is easy to make and we have an profusion of local ingredients that can be used to create a wide variety of exotic sorbet flavors such as snake fruit, nutmeg fruit, ginger flower (kecombrang), tamarind and tamarilo (terong belanda). The basic ingredients of sorbet are simply fruit juice or fruit puree, sugar and the liquid of limes or lemons.
Sorbet is really the first iced dessert because ice cream was not invented until the 18th century. The Chinese introduced sorbet to the Persians and Arabs, who passed it on the Italians, who perfected the dessert and its cousin, gelato ice cream. I have two different flavors of sorbet featuring recognizable fruits for this week’s recipes. They are prepared in two different ways to give them different textures. With temperatures on the rise the last few weeks, I am sure you will find these sorbets’s to be a revitalizing treat.
April 6, 2011
Ice cream maker Baskin Robbins is holding a fire sale for the third successive year to raise funds for the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation (CFFF). On Wednesday, April 27 from 5-10 p.m., Baskin Robbins ice cream shops across Canada will host 31 Cent Scoop Night, when they’ll be selling small cups and cones for 31 cents. The money raised will go to the CFFF, a non-profit organization that honours fallen firefighters and monetarily supports their families.
“This initiative gives us all the chance to thank and support families who have sacrificed so much … in the line of duty,” said Capt. Robert Kirkpatrick from Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services. Kirkpatrick is president of the CFFF. “The generous donations received during this event will help us in remembering fallen firefighters every year … and help their children during CFFF’s educational bursaries.”
April 5, 2011
Dunkin’ Donuts will launch a memorial donut to mark the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Boston Globe reported Monday. While the coffee and baked goods chain regularly marks customary holidays with seasonal offerings, the culinary tribute for the April 29 wedding seemed uncommon for a New England company, the newspaper reported on its website.
However a spokesperson told the Boston Globe that Nigel Travis, the CEO of Dunkin’s parent company, was British and “especially eager for the big day.” The Royal Wedding Donut, offered for the week of the wedding and on sale for 89 cents, is a heart-shaped, filled with jelly and topped with vanilla ice cream and a chocolate drizzle. Dunkin’s sister chain, Baskin-Robbins, has plans for a memorial ice cream cake topped with white and blue roses, apparently “evocative of an English Garden.”
Yes, it’s still cold exterior, but here’s a hot deal you don’t want to miss at Photo’s Hot Dogs in Palatine. Every Saturday, you can get vanilla or chocolate soft-serve ice cream either in a cup or a cone absolutely free. Amazingly, you don’t even have to buy anything. The rest of the week, they’ll give you free ice cream with any purchase. Photo’s is a fun place, especially for the kids, and has an attractive ecletic menu for a fast food restaurant. Yes, there are hot dogs and burgers, sure. But you’ll also find veggie quesadillas, hummus squashing and yummy salads. Still, it’s the free ice cream flavor that’s the sweetest contract.
March 31, 2011
Lovers of Tim Hortons’ apple fritters may desire to try a new ice cream. Tim Hortons and Cold Stone Creamery announced Wednesday the apple fritter ice cream has been developed. It combines cream, chunks of apples and cinnamon and is the first Tim Hortons-inspired ice cream flavour created by the creamery. The ice cream will be sold in Tim Horton’s locations that also sell Cold Stone Creamery foodstuffs. The apple fritter has been on the Tim Hortons menu as it opened in 1964.
March 29, 2011
The fare offered at Crossroads Restaurant in the Oklahoma monument Union will become more diverse next month with the addition of an ice cream shop. Crossroads Creamery is tentatively scheduled to open April 7 in place of the restaurant’s smoothie shop, Housing and Food Services spokeswoman Lauren Royston said. Ice cream by the scoop, sundaes and ice cream floats will be on the creamery’s menu, Royston said. The creamery is planned to have the feel of a classic ice cream and soda bar, Royston said.
“It’s kind of a step back when you think of the union’s old soda cause and the memories that were made in that respect, so to be able to offer that to this group of current Sooners is a really nice opportunity,” Royston said. Chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream will be available, and one or two specialty flavors will be placed in revolving every few weeks, Royston said. Eventually, the shop will provide sherbet as well, Royston said. Housing and Food Services employees are looking for suggestions from students about Crossroads Creamery’s full menu, Royston said. “We welcome the feedback of the students, and we’re ready to look over that and take those suggestions into consideration,” Royston said. “We’re always on the hunt for ways to make our restaurants more appetizing to our customers, and this is a logical chance for us to do so.”
March 25, 2011
A New York man has been arrested for supposedly selling illegal prescription drugs from his ice cream truck, making more than $1 million in a year, prosecutors said. Louis Scala sold ice cream to children from his “Lickity Split” truck and would allegedly make stops at prearranged acne where customers knew they could buy pills, according to the New York Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
Scala, 40, is accused of selling more than 40,000 prescription oxycodone pills from his ice cream truck in the municipality of Staten Island and heading up a 30-person drug ring that included more than two dozen runners to fill fake prescriptions, prosecutors said. Another suspect, Nancy Wilkins, is accused of using her position as an assistant at a Manhattan orthopedic office to steal blank prescription pads and supposedly sell them for $100 a page, prosecutors said. The phony prescriptions would be filled by runners who would be paid in cash or in pills, they said. The circle earned more than $1 million in the past year, sometimes charging up to $20 for a single pill.
March 24, 2011
Good news for tastebuds, bad news for diets – Wellesley is getting its own branch of the popular Boston ice cream chain J.P. Licks at 63 Central St., previously the location of The Body Shop. The store will open next week, according to a liberate. “We are proud to open our tenth location in Wellesley Center and look forward to becoming a good neighbor within the local community,” said owner Vince Petryk. The sequence is owned and operated by Petryk, who in 1981 opened his flagship location on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain where he lived. This opening is a milestone for the local ice cream maker as it opens its tenth hoard while celebrating 30 years in business.
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