QUOTE(dwRK @ Sep 24 2020, 11:49 AM)
I would thaw it and restart...but modify the recipe
you can do a sherbet, because this has more water content... or fix it back as an ice cream... or try both since you have 3L....
some info... fresh milk is 3.5% fat/88% water, whipping cream 30-35% fat, heavy cream 35-40% fat, can assume remaining % as water for both, evaporated milk is concentrated milk with 60% water evaporated.
your mixture is almost all water...very minimal fat from milk, sherbet is mainly fruit juices with milk and cream... so here you can use fruit concentrates to make up the "juice" part and go from there
alternatively, you can add evaporated milk or milk powder to bring your mixture back so it not watered down milk, and use whipping or heavy cream and re-do. both cases you'll need to scale you sugar, etc.
it's probably easier to start the re-do with just adding cream and see how that goes... anyways good luck in your experiments... holler if you need help
edit: you can use whipping or heavy cream, don't have to worry about fat content in this case. I use mostly whipping cream, my standard recipe usually total 3 cups of liquid, 1 cup cream + 2 cup milk but depending on my mood sometimes I use 0.5 cup cream, sometimes 1.5 cup max. I also prefer the custard method for ice creams because the egg yolks add flavors and thickens the mixture and so I can cut down on cream
Thanks for the suggestion. Here to report the second try.
As suggested, I thawed out the mixture then added another 100g of powdered creamer to an approximately 1000ml of thawed out mixture. It was approximately 1300ml when in ice form, though. I remember I did share a couple of scoops with my kids, to test the taste (not the texture, coz this part was a failure) - so instead of 1.5L, I had about 1.3L.
Anyway, what I did was put it on my cooker to stir and thoroughly mix the powdered creamer. No, I didn't bring it to boil, since I'm using all ready to eat ingredients. I put it under the mixer (on medium) after letting it cool down. I saw the mixture get aerated with visible bubbles but as soon as I stopped, the bubbles started to disappear and the mixture started to look like thick milk again. But seing the bubbles, I was more hopeful that my machine can actually mix and aerate it better.
And to my delight, I managed to create something that more resembles ice cream in terms of texture. It is now soft, though not yet as firm as good ice cream you can buy from stores.
I actually added around 60ml of water, for fear that putting it on the cooker would evaporate some. But in hind sight, probably this prevented the texture to be firmer (more ice cream-like, if you will)
But anyway, I am much more pleased with how this trial turned out. My kids also felt it was more like ice cream.
Guess my machine works... I was really worried I'd wasted money on an expensive machine when it cannot produce anything closely resembling to ice cream.