Glace au Miel

Honey Ice Cream

Preparation info
  • For

    6 to 8

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Mireille Johnston

Published 1990

  • About

For this recipe you must use honey that is strongly flavored but not too sweet. The mixture of honey ice and toasted almonds is wonderful. Keep the leftover egg whites for soupirs aux amandes.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups milk
  • 7 egg yolks
  • cups honey (the bes

Method

Scald the milk. Beat the egg yolks in a heavy saucepan until the mixture is thick and lemon-colored. Very gradually stir in the hot milk and then the honey and salt. (You may stir in the thyme for a more accented flavor.) Put over a moderately low flame and stir constantly with a wooden spoon until the custard thickens and coats the back of a metal spoon. Do not let the mixture come anywhere ne