Alsatian Spiced Honey Ice Cream

Name: Alsatian Spiced Honey Ice Cream
Yield: Makes about 1 quart
Ingredients: Large pinch fresh-grated nutmeg, or to taste; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or to taste; ½ cup fragrant honey, such as lavender honey; 1 cup heavy cream or crème fraîche; 4 large egg yolks; Pinch ground cloves, or to taste

Preparation info

Makes about
1 quart

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Home Desserts

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

About

Flavoring cream with honey and spices is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, for whom honey was the principal sweetener. This ice cream is fragrant and mellow; try it with a slice of toasted Helmstetter Kugelhopf moistened with eau-de-vie syrup.

Ingredients

1 cup milk
½ cup fragrant honey, such as lavender honey
4

Dessert
Gluten-free
Spicy
ice cream
Vegetarian

Method

In a heavy nonreactive saucepan, scald the milk with the honey. The mixture may begin to curdle; that’s OK, but do not boil hard. Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, cream or crème fraîche, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
Very gradually whisk the hot milk-honey mixture into the egg yolk mixture; correct the seasonings, if necessary. Pour the mixtur