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I assumed ice creams were generally fine.  Then, this summer, we called our favorite vacation ice
cream shop to double check and were told that they use wheat as a thickener in the base of all
their ice creams.  They told us that most homemade ice creams do the same. I haven't seen wheat as
an ingredient in commercial ice creams I've bought at the store (except, of course, in the obvious
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I just have to respond to that last response! 

I don't know what homemade ice cream the respondent's shop was referring to. I've been making ice
cream at home for over a decade, and have not once encountered a modern home recipe that includes
wheat. Perhaps they (the shop, not the respondent) mean "home style", a phrase which means nothing
beyond, "we're making this commercially but we want you to think it's like homemade."

I do have some old (1940s) recipes for "frozen custard" that include a small amount of corn starch
or flour, but they weren't considered ice cream even then. They're not necessarily either frozen
custard or ice cream by our current standards, as they don't always involve making a cooked
custard, and are mostly still-frozen, not churned. 

Anyway, on a more helpful note, all Breyers flavors except the obvious ones with cookie dough and
such are gf. Likewise with Edy's/Dreyers (different names in the east & west, same company). You
can check their web sites for ingredients in the various flavors.



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