Recipe Review: Patricia Wells' Honey Ice Cream

Ice cream season has officially begun, and we returned to one of our very favorite ice cream recipes last night. It's also one of the easiest.

We found this recipe a long time ago on Heidi Swanson's blog. It's utterly simple - cream, milk, honey, and vanilla bean. We've made it several different ways - such simple ingredients allow for experiments and changes. This time around we didn't have a vanilla bean so we used a teaspoon of high quality vanilla extract, adding it at the end of cooking. We also cooked in two egg yolks, stirring them into the warmed milk and cream until a thermometer just hit 170°F. This gave it just a little extra richness and smoothness. Delicious!

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Comments (3)

I'm hitting up the farmer's market today with this recipe in mind! It'll be so soothing on a hot day.

posted by lostinprojection on June 3rd 2008 at 6:22am
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Ice cream has a season???

But seriously, looks good and sounds like a lovely evening project....

posted by Leah Hope on June 3rd 2008 at 8:54am
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Years ago, Baskin Robbins had honey flavored ice cream and I LOVED it, but it was seasonal and I've never seen honey flavored ice cream anywhere since, although maybe i'm not looking in the right places. I can't wait to try this recipe

posted by inertia on March 7th 2009 at 3:57pm
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