Golden Chai Ice Cream

Ingredients
2 cups whipping cream
1 cup full-fat milk
3 - 4 heaping tablespoons Westholme's Golden Chai Tisane
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
6 egg yolks (room temperature)

Method

 

- Add the sugar and sea salt and continue to steep, stirring occasionally until the sugar completely dissolves, approximately another 5 minutes. Remove pot from heat and set aside. 

- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks slowly and constantly until thickened and pale yellow.

- Very slowly whisk a cup of the hot Golden Chai, cream and milk mixture into the yolks to temper the eggs and avoid scrambling. Whisk this yolk mixture back into the pot with the rest of the Golden Chai-infused mixture.

- Return the pot to the stove over medium-low heat and gently cook, stirring often until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (about 170 degrees on an instant-read thermometer). Remove from the heat and set aside. 

- Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl to remove any of the tisane infusion spice solids. Cool the mixture to room temperature on the counter, then chill for at least 4 hours or overnight.

- When the mixture is properly chilled, churn in an ice cream machine according to manufacturers’ instructions. Store in the freezer until ready to serve. 

 

This week, we received our shipment of CEDAR + SALT cookbooks (by DL Acken and Emily Lycopolus, with photos by DL Acken) which are now available at our Teashop and in our Online Store. You can find an incredible Westholme Canadian-grown Tea Recipe that Acken and Lycopolus developed on page 148. 
 
We got in touch with DL Acken upon receiving the cookbook. An accomplished international food writer and photographer, she was born and raised in Canada, and spent some cherished time on Vancouver Island in her youth. Experiencing the abundance of the microclimate here is part of what lead her to a profound appreciation for the sourcing, creation, and documentation of beautiful, fresh food. She now resides part-time on Salt Spring Island, and had come to visit the Westholme Tea Garden to do research and photography for the cookbook. 

After leaving with a pouch of our Golden Chai herbal tisane, and playing with the rich turmeric colour and spiced, earthy flavours of the infusion, she came to a wonderful result - the most beautiful, delicious golden ice-cream we've ever seen. This recipe is not included in the cookbook, but she has very graciously sent us the photos and methods to share with our community, so strap in for an exclusive mouth-watering experience.