Salted maple ice cream

Salty and sweet, a tale as old as time. True as it can be. I remember reading about maple syrup in Laura Ingall’s “Little House in the Big Woods” as a child, wondering why something as plain as white sugar could ever be considered superior to the heady taste of maple syrup. To me, maple syrup was luxurious! My mother would sometimes pour a little syrup over chilled halves of cantaloupe melon in the summer and it was the best snack I could think of.

To this day, salted maple is one of my favourite flavours and one I return to in different desserts… I will always love a simple dessert of either chilled melon and berries or grilled stone fruits drizzled with salted maple syrup (often infused with e.g. coffee beans, elderflower, cinnamon, vanilla or lemongrass). But salt and maple syrup have found its way into everything from canelés, creme caramel, maple meringue to - of course! - ice cream.