VIKING SMOKED SALT ICE CREAM
Ingredients:
* 2 cups raw heavy cream (grass-fed, 36% fat).
* 5 egg yolks (pasture-raised = orange gold).
* 3 tbsp unrefined cane sugar (pan-toasted until caramel-nutty).
* 1/4 cup cacao (stone-ground, ultra-bitter).
* 1 tsp Icelandic birch-smoked salt (for dough) + extra flakes for garnish.
* 1 tsp vanilla (real pod scraped).
Method:
1. Toast sugar in dry pan until deep amber, then whisk into yolks.
2. Whip cream + cacao to soft peaks in copper bowl (if you’re fancy).
3. Fold in yolk-sugar mix, smoked salt, vanilla.
4. Freeze in salt-ice bath (Himalayan salt + ice) for 45 mins, stirring twice.
5. Serve with birch salt flakes on top → smoke + sweet + savage.
Pair With: Blackened cod skins (crunch contrast).