Thank you! Also, 2 requests: Pictures and Flavor Descriptions.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

1st and most importantly: That was amazing. Thank you to everyone who came. I had a spectacular time, and I've heard nothing but good things from everyone else so far. I hope to have a more verbose set of thanks soon, but for now know that I'm gratified and grateful and overjoyed by the fabulousness that was Baitcon XXV.

2nd: our photos page is woefully out of date, full of stale links, and missing tons of recent pictures.
If you can send me proper links to your various Baitcon pictures, I'd really appreciate it. Also, as things go offline over time, I'd REALLY like archival copies of pictures. I can pick things up from personal web servers, come by your house with USB or other media, or give you an FTP/SFTP server/dropbox to stick them on. Bulk downloading from online gallery services is annoying, but if that's the only way, let me know and we can try to work that out, too.

3rd: I love the names y'all give to the myriad flavors you produce. That said, I'd really like to be able to list on http://wp.baitcon.org/ice-cream/flavor-list/ (which is up to date with this year's flavors) what things actually are. Recipes would be a bonus.
Please comment here, or mail me, or drop paper in my mailbox at home, or something with as much as you remember.
I believe, for example, that Schadenfreude was (some sort of) Coffee, and Salt. Was there more? Was there a reason for the flavor? Let me know.

Thank you all for everything!
JB (and of course the rest of BCC, though they don't actually know I'm posting this. :)

Comments

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Schadenfreude was based on Schadenfreude Pie (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/) by John Scalzi.

It was espresso, baker's chocolate and caramel, with (too much) salt. (I added the salt to represent the tears of your enemies. Evidently, I have too many enemies.)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the salt was only a tad too much. The espresso came at the end, the chocolate was there, but the caramel was hidden. I enjoyed it, but a bit less salt and it will be wonderful.

[blk]

Ditto to this. A-, would eat again.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

The Red Pepper of Dorne: Basically red bell pepper flavored
The North: Wintergreen is Coming: Wintergreen mint flavored
Iron Islands: Almond Greyjoy: Earl grey ice cream with almonds
Red Wedding Cake: Sweet cream with red velvet cake
The Vale: Moon Door Pie: Strawberry cream with moon pie
The Reach: Festival of Flowers: Blue flower earl grey, rose water, and orange blossom water
Stormlands: Dragonstone Fruit: Dragon fruit sorbet
Casterly Rocky Road: Rocky road base with cashews, marshmallows and Lion candy bars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Bar).
You Know Nothing, Jon Snow Cone: Lemon/rose sorbet

[red-canna.livejournal.com]

It was an amazing weekend! All 8 of us had a great time. Thank you for everything, JB. :)

[dragonsea]

Peanut Ginger: Hammercock had leftover ginger syrup and there was peanut butter on the snack table. I don't know how much of each I used; but I think it was at least a cup of peanut butter. I used 1/2 heavy cream and 1/2 milk. What I think really helped was really whisking the peanut butter so it was combined with the base.

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

Sour Cream and Raisin: based on sour cream and raisin pie, which is traditional in the intermountain west. I trialed a custard-based one at home, which was more faithful to the inspiration, but went with the simpler cold-ingredients one because it's easier and also good. 1 cup sour cream, half cup milk, quarter cup heavy cream, teaspoon lemon juice, generous pinch each salt, cloves, nutmeg. half cup raisins, soaked in rum overnight, drain off excess rum.

Coconutmeg: coconut milk ice cream base, used cheesecloth to make a teabag with about a teaspoon of freshly-grated nutmeg. Let infuse in fridge overnight, added a bit of fresh nutmeg directly to mix because it wasn't nutmeggy enough. Need to alter nutmeg flavor-extraction method -- heat, probably.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I thought coconutmeg had to do do with a person named Meg. Duh.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

3 Lori-s was made a while ago, but it was a chocolate base with cherries and a pomegranate caramel swirl.

[kelkyag]

Cranberry Chutney Sorbet was the "Cranberry Chutney with Tart Green Apple" out of Jeffree Wyn Itrich's "Spice It Up!", minus the celery, plus some extra cranberry syrup (sugar+water used to cook cranberries for another recipe). It contained cranberries, apples, onion, ginger, cider vinegar, orange juice, sugar, salt, and cayenne. (FWIW, that one was frozen at home in an ice cream maker, because the test batch had worked well that way and the feedback I'd gotten on LN2 freezing of sorbets was ... mixed.)

Rosemary contained a mix of heavy cream and half-and-half (about two cups), a pinch of salt, and about half a batch of rosemary syrup. A batch of rosemary syrup comes from a cup of water, a cup of sugar, and a packet of rosemary simmered together until somewhat reduced (to about a cup of total liquid?), chilled for a couple of days, then strained while packing for baitcon.

Bing and Rainier each contained a scant pound of cherries, pittied & cut into eights (makes a scant two cups). Mix the cherries with half a cup of sugar and refrigerate for a while/overnight to let the sugar draw out juice. Add the syrup from the sugared cherries to two cups of heavy cream and half-and-half, a pinch of salt, and about two tablespoons more sugar. Freeze the sweetened cream most of the way, then add the cherries and freeze the rest of the way.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Wafer Thin Mint is, as always, peppermint ice cream with crushed Girl Scout Thin Mints.
Spicy Granny was a sorbet of homemade ginger syrup and Polar brand's granny smith apple seltzer.

I think most of my other flavor names are pretty self-explanatory. :-}

I checked the list and see that it's actually missing a couple of flavors I made one year! A few years back I made an orange curd ice cream, as well as Tiger Stripe ice cream (orange ice cream with licorice swirl).

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

I really loved Spicy Granny! Just wanted to say. :)

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Franck Arabica was what Turkey Uruguay Vietnam usually is - Turkish Vietnamese coffee ice cream - coffee brewed Turkish style, blended with sweetened
condensed milk vietnamese style, in milkfat and sugar proportions that make a good ice cream. (Turkey Uruguay Vietnam are the countries in TMBG's
song "The Alphabet of Nations.)

As our Turkish coffee is a brand called Franck, when I saw that they'd put out a box of Franck brand 100% arabica coffee (instead of their
usual blend of arabica and robusta) I couldn't resist naming it something that sounded like Frank Sumatra but was more to my personal coffee
liking. It is quite a noticeably different flavor that Turkey Uruguay Vietnam with the different bean blend, actually, but I didn't make both side by side.

gljiva's Cranberry crunch was a cranberry sorbet with cranberry chunks based on candied cranberry crack.

zubatac's Sour is citric acid, sugar, and seltzer/water.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

Ginger Beer Sorbet: Reed's extra strength ginger beer
Dark and Stormy: Reed's extra strength ginger beer, plus Stroh rum

I had a fantastic time. I'm so glad I came last year, and came back this year! Thank you for inviting me, and my thanks also to everyone on the BCC and everyone else who volunteers.

An extra round of thanks to Derek, who has been totally cheerful, friendly, upbeat, and professional while dealing with medical stuff for me and mine two years in a row. Don't take it personally, but I'm hoping NOT to do this again next year.