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Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book [Paperback]

Jake Godby , Sean Vahey , Frankie Frankeny , Paolo Lucchesi
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

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Book Description

April 25, 2012
With more than 310,000 Twitter followers, a heaping helping of controversy, and a rich supply of attitude and humor, Humphry Slocombe is not your average ice cream shop. Yet the ice cream is what matters, and they make it in dozens of glorious, unique, and delightful flavors. This tasty book collects 50 recipes for these idolized and iconoclastic flavors, as well as surprising sundae combinations and popular toppings such as marshmallow and crumbled curry cookie. More than 50 color photographs, dozens of graphics and drawings, and first-person essays and scenes from the shop present a delicious foray into this scoop of San Francisco's incredible food scene.

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Editorial Reviews

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"These guys make their living creating the most fantastic ice cream and the only possible reasons that they'd sell you the recipes for their bourbon-and-cornflake flavor and the others in this book are that a) they are banking on the fact that the people who buy recipe books are too goddamn lazy to ever make the recipes or b) they are on a nihilistic quest to destroy their own business or c) they are completely insane."
--Ira Glass, NPR's This American LIfe

"I see this as my little child, in a way. This is fantastic." - Ferran Adria

About the Author

Jake Godby is chef and owner of Humphry Slocombe. He lives in San Francisco.

Sean Vahey is operations manager and owner of Humphry Slocombe. He lives in San Francisco.

Paolo Lucchesi is columnist of Inside Scoop for the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco.

Frankie Frankeny is a San Francisco-based food and lifestyle photographer.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books (April 25, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1452104689
  • ISBN-13: 978-1452104683
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Co-Owner/ Operations Mgr Humphry Slocombe. My role at HS focuses on social media, marketing/sales and front of the house operations. My background is mainly in hospitality, five years with Hyatt hotels, four years with Four Seasons and many other SF restaurants. My roles have been Food & Beverage Manager, Restaurant Manager, Bar Manager, Server, Concierge and more. Humphry Slocombe has given me the opportunity to encompass all my experience over the years and now we get to share some of our stories via Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book...look for more down the road!

Customer Reviews

If this was a review of the *place* I'd give them five stars easily. Morgan Johnson  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
I've wasted enough money trying to make these recipes work. Eliza  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
If the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book were a vehicle, it would be recalled. Tim Orlando  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars The recipes just don't work June 5, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I judge a cookbook at the most basic level: do the recipes work as written? All too often cookbooks are rushed to market and the recipes are not tested. These books can be full of innovative ideas and gorgeous art and personality, but if the recipes don't work then what is the point?

Sadly, the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book is one of these cookbooks.

I'm a fan of the establishment. I've eaten their delicious ice cream a dozen times, including a flight of beer ice creams during SF beer week. If this was a review of the *place* I'd give them five stars easily. But it's not.

So far I have made the Here's Your Damn Strawberry Ice Cream (twice), the Here's Your Damn Chocolate Ice Cream, Secret Breakfast, the cornflake cookies and the graham crackers. And none of them have worked out properly. One gets the impression that they wrote up one generic recipe for their custard base and copy-pasted it for every ice cream. Or that the baking instructions for the baked goods at the back of the book were rough guesses. I've had to cut the salt in half for every recipe otherwise the ice cream tastes like a salt lick. The cooking times for the chocolate were wildly off. The cornflake cookies were done after 13 minutes--doing it for the recommended 30 would have resulted in charcoal briquettes. And so on.

There are good ideas in here, but the execution is terrible.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun book with a caveat July 4, 2012
Format:Paperback
Having corresponded with the proprietors of Humphry Slocombe, I was able to verify that they use a brand of salt (Diamond Kosher) that is less salty than virtually all other brands. Without going into much detail, it has to do with the size of the salt crystals. Therefore 1 teaspoon of the salt they are using is roughly equivalent to 1/2 teaspoon of other kosher salts and perhaps even less if you're using table salt. So for best results either hunt down the brand they use or modify the recipes accordingly.

That said I've enjoyed all of the recipes I've tried. Lots of fun off-the-wall flavors.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Sloppy January 13, 2013
By Nick
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I agree with most of the criticism. It's kind of a sloppily written book with odd errors. I can't imagine anyone not familiar with the shop buying the book. The salt and sugar content seem quite excessive. I've never used the recommended 1 teaspoon of salt per quart of ice cream, but did on one occasion use the 1 cup of sugar with the Vietnamese Coffee ice cream recipe, which also calls for sweetened condensed milk, and found it excessively sweet. Usually I use 2/3 cup sugar and a pinch of salt for a quart of ice cream, a system I have worked out and like based on previous experience making ice cream, and find these changes to the basic custard work well for the recipes in this book; I should point out this book uses the same basic base for almost every ice cream.

Another interesting difference in their ice cream base is the relatively small amount of egg yolks compared to most other recipes I have seen. This can be a bit of a problem for the home cook as its easy for someone like myself, who only makes ice cream once a month at the most, to slightly over cook the custard and end up straining out a bit of scrambled egg. If you end up over cooking the base too much the ice cream doesn't set well, so adding an additional yolk or too might be useful to the home cook who doesn't make ice cream several times a day' most other recipes I've read use at least 5 yolks per quart, the recipes in this book require only 3.

The primary reason I bought the book was for some of the shops more famous (or infamous) recipes such as secret breakfast (the bourbon and corn flake recipe). Unfortunately the bourbon ice cream, probably the reason everyone bought the book, contains a major typo and calls for double the bourbon necessary.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars ill thought recipe writing. July 1, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have to agree with this review. The measurements are way off. I will write Mr. Slocombe to tell him how disappointed i am for wasting my money. I knew from the first recipe that I made, that the ratios were wrong, but I had to see how wrong. Nuff said.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent flavors, a little light on technique June 24, 2012
By R D
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What an inspiring, creative cookbook! I've made four different flavors so far.

Strengths:
* There's a lot of "behind the scenes" material that really brings life to the recipes- numerous anecdotes and (in)famous twitter updates project a very strong, distinctive personality
* Incredibly creative flavors and combinations
* The secrets behind a number of popular flavors
* Truly delicious ice cream!

Weaknesses:
* Has the common malady of chef-created cookbooks where the authors have forgotten what was tricky about certain techniques back when they learned them... candymaking in particular is an important part of a number of recipes (caramels, brittles) but the steps provided sometimes lack detail sufficient to get a beginner through successfully the first time. That's not to say that every cookbook should be a remedial course in technique, but the long-form recipes give the impression of handholding that is a bit misleading. (Yep, I screwed it up the first time on each candy-making recipe before resorting to techniques from other sources).
* Several recipes feature hard-to-find ingredients, without any source recommendations. For substitutable ingredients (like "McEvoy Olive Oil") a more specific description of the character of the original ingredient would be helpful.
* For those who live too far from SF to have tasted the originals, it's difficult to know if a recipe came out right. It would help to call out that (for example) "Here's your damn chocolate" might best be described as "chocolate *salted* caramel", or that "Elvis the Fat Years" has a very bananas foster-esque flavor (with the bacon playing a distinctly minor role). At least, that's what I'm hoping they were supposed to be!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I had hoped
I am not much into recipe books that contain back story about the company and commentary about how something came to be or all that jazz... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Raychel
4.0 out of 5 stars Ice cream addict
I love the ideas and flavors in this book, it's a keeper! Peanut butter curry is awesome! I love it!
Published 20 days ago by Adik sa ice cream
2.0 out of 5 stars Seriously disappointing
I'd been to the Humphry Slocombe ice cream shop, so I was really looking forward to this cookbook, so that I could make some of the novel, tasty ice creams I'd tried there. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gail Martin
2.0 out of 5 stars Checked out at the library and tried it.
I am glad I checked this book out at the library and tried the recipes. If I had purchased it, would have been peeved. Read more
Published 3 months ago by penname
1.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointment
If the Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book were a vehicle, it would be recalled. As several reviewers indicated, the recipes simply are inaccurate. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Tim Orlando
5.0 out of 5 stars For the Foodie
After visiting Humphry Slocombe and trying the ice cream I had to buy this book. Well worth the money, it has great recipes and fun stories to go with them. Read more
Published 6 months ago by GigaJiga
1.0 out of 5 stars A Waste of Money
This book, which I was so excited to receive, is a complete waste. Clearly the authors did not read their recipes, or they would know that every single ice cream recipe has at... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Eliza
2.0 out of 5 stars The breakfast of which we shall not speak
Who makes a cookbook without testing all the recipes? We've followed the Secret Breakfast recipe to a T a couple of times now and have been left with a soupy mess. Read more
Published 10 months ago by E.W.
3.0 out of 5 stars Be ready to modify the recipes
I made the chocolate malt recipe and it's just way, way too salty. The salt over-powers the chocolate and the malt and it makes you thirsty eating the ice cream. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Martin Goetz
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