Sea Salt Ice Cream
My friend made this ice cream before and insisted that it was her favourite flavour. The flavour idea came from the video game, Kingdom Hearts 2. I have never played it, but I think there are some cut scenes where they eat sea salt ice cream or something like that.
Now, ice cream is a lot harder to make than I initially thought. I thought that I just had to pour a lot of cream and sugar into the ice cream maker and I’d be done. Boy was I ever wrong.
Not only does ice cream require eggs, they need to be separated into yolk and white.
These egg whites need to be beaten.
Then you have to boil the milk.
Then you have to make a custard. This took forever, by the way. The recipe said not to boil the mixture, so I didn’t make it hot enough to turn into custard. It took a good 15-20 minutes longer than necessary, and by that time I had sworn off making ice cream ever again.
After a few drops of food colouring and some time in the fridge, the mixture went into the ice cream maker where it promptly overheated the machine. For anyone who has taken high school chemistry, salt lowers the freezing point of a liquid, so it was too warm for my little machine.*
I transferred the warm cream mixture to a plastic container and froze it overnight. Thankfully, it actually froze this time.
Voila!
Here is the recipe adapted from Recipezaar
Ingredients
- 2eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- sea salt (be careful with this)
- blue food coloring
Method
- Separate the eggs into two good sized bowls.
- Mix the egg yolks and sugar until thick.
- Slowly bring the milk to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
- While waiting for the milk to boil, beat the egg whites until stiff.
- Pour the hot milk into yolk/sugar mixture and mix well.
- Pour milk/yolk/sugar mixture back into pot and heat on medium until thicker to make a custard (Don’t let it boil!)
- Pour custard in with beaten egg whites and mix well.
- Add sea salt to taste. Although it is supposed to be salt flavoured, don’t add so much salt that you no longer enjoy the taste.
- Put mixture in fridge to cool.
- Once cool, add cream and vanilla .
- (Optional) Add blue food colouring to desired intensity.
- Freeze, following your ice cream maker’s instructions.
- If you don’t have an ice cream maker pour mixture into 1 or 2 metal cake pans and set in freezer. Let sit until edges become firm, then remove and mix. Repeat until uniformly frozen.
*Note: I only did half of the mixture in the ice cream machine at that time. I left the other half in the fridge overnight and refroze the ice cream machine, which turned out better, but still pretty soft. Anyway, try keeping your mixture in the fridge as long as possible to maximize freezing in your ice cream machine.
