tiger stripe ice cream

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

For some reason I have recently remembered a flavor of ice cream I have only tasted in Canada, and that was decades ago. It's called "tiger stripe," "tiger tail," or "tiger tiger," and it's orange ice cream or sherbet with a black licorice swirl. I know that this probably sounds really weird to most people, but I remember loving it and now I am obsessed with the idea of making some for Baitcon.

Problem is, I can't find a recipe for either the specific flavor or for making a licorice swirl. I'm not sure if my google-fu is not up to the task or if Canadians never make it themselves at home. :-} I don't suppose any Canadians who happen to read this could help me out?

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

i never made any ice cream until going to baitcon, so i'm probably useless. That said, it's not usually a sorbet (actually, i've never heard of it as such), it was orange ice cream and licorice ice cream, swirled. orange is pretty easy, but this licorice ice cream looks tasty: http://www.chow.com/recipes/10430

oddly, though i love black licorice, i've never been a tiger tail fan.

heavens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/highsteelheels/367672644/in/set-72157603530338538/

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Not sorbet, but sherbet, which usually has milk in it...what I recall was orange ice cream with ripples of black licorice, like a sauce.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Didn't someone do a Tiger stripe before? I don;t know if it was orange and licorice, might have been chocolate.
Look back through the ice cream lists and see if there is a name attached.

I have about 40 different ice cream cookbooks, I don't have time to go through them now, but later I'll look and get back to you if I find something you might use to start with.

Also, you might look for a licorice syrup or ice cream topping that you could swirl in to orange ice cream or sorbet.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

As it turns out I have several licorice ice cream recipes. Some use fennel, some anise and some use actual pureed licorice candy.

If you want I can type them in for you so you can get an idea of what goes into them.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would be awesome, thank you! I suspect that the pureed licorice candy is more what I'm after.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Nope, no one has made this flavor before. There has been orange sherbet, and there has been licorice vanilla salt ice cream, but not the tiger stripe that I recall eating. Looking for licorice syrup is a good idea, though. Making orange ice cream would be easy enough; it's the licorice swirl that I had no idea how to replicate.

Licorice syrup

[donnad.livejournal.com]

http://www.naturesflavors.com/product_info.php/products_id/2883

http://cgi.ebay.com/LICORICE---Snow-Cone%2fSHAVED-ICE-Flavor-SYRUP-MIX-GALLON_W0QQitemZ230285988478QQcmdZViewItem

ohoh

[wolfdancer.livejournal.com]

I used to get tiger tails when I was a kid. Not sure if it was chocolet or something else but this sounds yumny.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Weird ice cream flavors at Baitcon? SHOCKING!

would you put actual licorice in it? or an anise flavored swirl? Either way it sounds really good.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I've certainly made, and eaten, stranger flavors than the one I'm describing here. :) I know a lot of people don't like black licorice, but I love it (as long as it's not salted or mentholated, yuck).

I would want to make a licorice syrup of some sort so that I could do a swirl.