Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2011
The main reason more people don’t make their own ice cream? It’s never as creamy, smooth, or dense as the best stuff from the store. We decided to change that.
The quicker it freezes, the smoother the ice cream, so we sped up the freezing time of our homemade ice cream recipe by starting with a colder base. Supplementing the sugar with corn syrup gave us a recipe that produced ice cream that froze...