An Australia day special. Based on a recipe from the "serendipity" ice cream shop in Sydney.
400ml milk
300ml cream
4 egg yolks
250g sugar
3 heaped teaspoons wattle seed (yeah you gotta buy it, not just pick wattle off a tree, i'm afraid)
50ml grand marnier
Mix half the sugar with about 100ml of water and cook in a saucepan until the sugar disssolves. Add the wattle seed and grand marnier and simmer for about 5 minutes. Leave that to cool, and meanwhile do the custard thing with the eggs, milk and the rest of the sugar. Strain the wattle seeds out of the cooled syrup as best you can (you could leave them in, but I found them a little too bitter) and mix into the custard. Let the whole lot cool down, then add the cream and let the ice cream machine do it's thing...
Remarks: True blue fairdinkum you bloody beauty. It's a strange taste to be sure, somewhat like dirty coffee, but actually works out very well. Some voted this the best flavour so far. Who am I to argue?
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Seriously, this is the best ice-cream I've had in ages. I'm still thinking about it now. Seriously. JR
And so the people have spoken. 'Wattle' I have to do to top this? Heh heh.
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