Honey Ice Cream with Sugar Maple Smoked Sea Salt

Name: Honey Ice Cream with Sugar Maple Smoked Sea Salt
Yield: serves 4; makes about 1 quart
Ingredients: 2 vanilla beans; 3 cups half-and-half; 1/2 cup aromatic honey, such as eucalyptus, avocado, or heather; 4 extra-large egg yolks; 2 two-finger pinches maple smoked sea salt

December 14, 2011

Dairy and smoked salt go together like rainbows and lollipops. Only better. The rainbow’s beauty is nice, but one can only speculate at its flavor, and you outgrow lollipops. Homemade ice cream is another matter. Swapping the bright intensity of sugar for the dewy softness of honey lends gusto to the meteorological event happening in your mouth. The interplay of pungent salt amid the cream’s frozen opulence of sweet smoke and vanilla bolsters the soul with prismatic beauty all its own.

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