June
Medium
4 prs.
60 min.
Aromatic vanilla ice cream
- 60ml cream
- 125g organic cane sugar
- 2g unripe cilantro seeds
- 1 pod vanilla bean
- 7 egg yolks
- 2 handfuls lady’s bedstraw
- A dash of sea salt
- Ice cream maker
- Thermometer
- Mortar
- Crush the cilantro seeds in a mortar.
- Split the vanilla pod lengthwise.
- Add cream, cilantro seed, vanilla, salt, and sugar to a pot. Bring to a boil, then take off heat and let cool for several minutes.
- Beat the eggs yolks into the cream until well-incorporated and slightly foamy.
- Put the pot on low heat. Be careful it doesn't boil, as it will make the cream curdle. If you can measure the temperature, 80 degrees C is a good point at which to remove it from the heat. If you can't measure the temperature, remove the cream mixture from heat once tiny bubbles appear on the surface.
- Cool the cream, then add lady bedstraw flowers.
- Pour the cream mixture into an ice cream maker until it thickens to the right consistency. If you don't have an ice cream maker, put the mix in a bowl, cover, and freeze. Remove the bowl from the freezer and whisk mixture every 20 minutes.
- Put the ice cream in a container and store in a freezer.
Tips
You can let the cream and flower mixture infuse for up to 24 hours before putting it in the ice cream maker. Simply store in a sealed container in the fridge. You can also make the ice cream with many other herbs and spices. Wild carrot, anise seed, and a couple of drops of mead is a particularly delicious variation.
Thorsten Schmidt
Restaurant Barr
Thorsten Schmidt is a Danish chef known for his sense of culinary adventure and love for experimentation. Raised in Jutland and trained in both Germany and France, Schmidt believes food to be a potential vehicle of cultural identity, pride and nostalgia. His former restaurant, Malling & Schmidt, served some of the most influential and inventive Danish food in the country. Schmidt is now a co-founder and partner of restaurant Barr. A collaboration between Schmidt and René Redzepi in the former noma restaurant space, Barr offers a convivial setting in which to enjoy high-quality comfort food and drink traditions of the North Sea.