I would like to make boozy ice cream but want to keep the abv below 5% how do I calculate

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Nancy July 20, 2020
Serious Eats has a good article on baking ice cream....various myths, truths, aspects.
Worth seeing.
Unfortunately, abv is not covered there.
Very roughly, if you make a batch with 2 cups volume (about 225 ml), 5% of that will be 11 ml (about 2 tsp) of 100% alcohol.
However, most of us don't have 100% spirits around.
Divide the measure by whatever percent abv spirit you use and you'll get the amount you can use in the mix. If, say, 40% alchohol, you could use about 28 ml or 2 tbsp in a 2 cup batch.
Hope this helps.
 
Nancy July 20, 2020
"Article on making ice cream"
 
Nancy July 20, 2020
And my metric figures were for one cup.
For two, the figures would be
450 ml batch
22 ml pure alcohol
56 ml of 40% spirits.
And so on, depending on percentage abv in your chosen spirits.
 
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