Ginger Ice Cream - Feast Your Eyes

by Rebecca Flint Marx, Posted Apr 30th 2009 @ 10:00AM

Looking at this makes us want to dive headfirst into a vat of thick, luxurious ice cream and spend the entire summer there.

The idea of ice cream on its own is refreshing enough, but the idea of ginger ice cream -- presented here by the lovely duo behind Rec(ession)ipes -- is a particularly palate-cleansing one. Ginger, a digestive aid, has been soothing stomachs and clearing sinuses for centuries. It's the perfect foil for the rich, heavy cream and eggs called for in most ice cream recipes. Texture-wise, too, it makes a happy bedfellow: biting down on a chunk of candied ginger is a curiously satisfying experience, like finding the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks. Altogether, the idea of ginger ice cream leaves us so ferklempt that we call upon poet Wallace Stevens to find the words that we cannot: "The only emperor," he once wrote, "is the emperor of ice cream."

[Via Rec(ession)ipes]

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Filed Under: Feast Your Eyes, Ingredients
Tags: comfort food, dairy, dessert, ginger, ice cream, IceCream, summer