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Tea + Ice Cream = Heaven!!
I found a recipe for Earl Grey ice cream the other day via one of the many blogs I follow. I drooled over it and decided to try it out. I haven't seen anything like this posted here, so I thought I'd share. Here's my modified recipe; simplified, no eggs, and sized for a one quart ice cream maker (1/2 qt of liquid). Fabulous for a hot day when you want your tea but don't want the heat.
TEA ICE CREAM
Ingredients
2 c. half & half
1/2 c. sugar
dash salt
1/2 c. heavy cream
5-6 tea bags (flavor is your choice!)
Preparation
1. Warm the half & half and sugar in a saucepan. Remove it from the heat, place the tea bags in the pan, cover, and steep at room temperature for an hour.
2. Remove the tea bags and stir in the heavy cream and salt; refrigerate until cool.
3. Prepare as directed by your ice cream maker.
Notes: I used 5 bags of Bigelow Lady Grey tea and the flavor was fantastic! Any flavor that you like with dairy would be wonderful. You can, of course, substitute all or some of the half & half for milk of any percentage (1:1 ratio), I just had 1/2 a gallon of it in the fridge and decided to use it. I added the heavy cream mostly to make up for the liquid that the heating cooked out in the first step.
My batch turned out perfectly and very tasty. While I was making a second batch of it my ice cream maker just stopped dead. I joked with a visiting friend, saying that the ice cream maker knew it was the most perfect batch of ice cream it could make, so it decided it could die now. :P I checked it this morning though and it's just fine; it must have just needed a break. :)
Crossposted in the usual places.
TEA ICE CREAM
Ingredients
2 c. half & half
1/2 c. sugar
dash salt
1/2 c. heavy cream
5-6 tea bags (flavor is your choice!)
Preparation
1. Warm the half & half and sugar in a saucepan. Remove it from the heat, place the tea bags in the pan, cover, and steep at room temperature for an hour.
2. Remove the tea bags and stir in the heavy cream and salt; refrigerate until cool.
3. Prepare as directed by your ice cream maker.
Notes: I used 5 bags of Bigelow Lady Grey tea and the flavor was fantastic! Any flavor that you like with dairy would be wonderful. You can, of course, substitute all or some of the half & half for milk of any percentage (1:1 ratio), I just had 1/2 a gallon of it in the fridge and decided to use it. I added the heavy cream mostly to make up for the liquid that the heating cooked out in the first step.
My batch turned out perfectly and very tasty. While I was making a second batch of it my ice cream maker just stopped dead. I joked with a visiting friend, saying that the ice cream maker knew it was the most perfect batch of ice cream it could make, so it decided it could die now. :P I checked it this morning though and it's just fine; it must have just needed a break. :)
Crossposted in the usual places.