Bacon is one of the hardest to find natural resources, and was at one time a contender for number 119 on the periodic table. It is said to be the reason that the founders of scandinavia came to the north, and can drive pigs towards canibalism. It even makes an attempt to get into typesetting with bacon ipsum. Well, at some point I decided that the only way bacon could get any better, would be to combine it with ice cream. See https://imgur.com/gallery/4m2tVSG (original is also wumo.com), http://wumo.com/wumo/2013/01/03 and https://baconipsum.com/.
Bacon ice cream, or Ice cream with candied bacon!
Ingredients for candied bacon
- 5 strips bacon
- light brown sugar
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Lay the strips of bacon on aluminum foil, shiny side down, and bend the edges a bit upwards in order to create walls. You will se why later.
- Sprinkle 2 teaspoons of brown sugar evenly over each strip of bacon.
- Bake for 12-16 minutes. Midway during baking, flip the bacon strips over and drag them through the dark, syrupy liquid that’s collected on the baking sheet. Continue to bake until as dark as mahogany. Remove from oven and cool the strips on a wire rack.
- Once crisp and cool, chop into little pieces, about the size of grains of rice.
Ingredients for ice cream
- 2 large egg yolks
- 75g packed brown sugar, light or dark (you decide)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 250ml high fat milk (Sødmælk in danish)
- 150ml half-and-half cream
- 2 teaspoons dark rum or whiskey
Method
- Beat together the egg yolks, vanilla and sugar, until light and fluffy.
- Keep whisking while adding the milk and alcohol.
- Whisk the cream till thick and foamy. Then add it to the rest of ingridents.
- Place into the ice cream machine until firm (around 30min), but remember to add the bacon bits during the last momemt of churring, then put into freezer for a couple of hours.
Yummy!
I think I found the basics for the candied bacon here (http://www.davidlebovitz.com/candied-bacon-i-1/), but I have later found out that it exists in multiple places around the internet.
Bacon sorbet anyone? :)