Spiced pumpkin ice cream

[semperfiona]

The recipe called for ground cloves, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, and ground pepper(!). I didn't have either cloves or pepper, so I used allspice, ginger, and cinnamon. I'm not sure whether even if I'd had pepper I would have used it. That seemed decidedly odd.

But the resultant ice cream--with my modifications--is quite tasty.

Comments

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Black pepper ice-cream is actually worth a try. A few restaurants around here serve it with banana fritters, and it works surprisingly well, IMO.

[semperfiona]

Hmm. Where is "around here" (more specifically than "England", that is)? I don't think I ever encountered black pepper ice cream there. I did have jalapeno-peach ice cream at a Mexican restaurant in Poole once, on a dare from my dining partner. It wasn't bad. Sweet peach flavor--and then it bit you after you had swallowed it.

I have "The British Museum Cookbook", which has a recipe for peppered pears. I've never tried it, though it has intrigued me for years.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love that cookbook. It's the one with menus for various cultures and time-periods, right? I keep meaning to 'borrow' it from my parents, since it's sitting on their bookshelf rather than their cookbookshelf.

[semperfiona]

Yes, that's the one. I haven't used it much, actually.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

The City of London (i.e. the business district), and at least one restaurant in East London. All the restaurants were Asian, IIRC.