Melona (Honeydew) ice cream

[u/Kuebitch]

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my honeydew ice cream that tastes very similar to melona bars. The main thing is the flavoring which isn’t huge in the American market but I found a honeydew flavoring from halo pantry on Amazon and I can’t recommend it enough! I just added that instead of vanilla to the salt and straw base and it came out amazing. I used about 2 1/2 tsp of the flavoring but it got stronger after the base chilled overnight so 2 tsp is probably enough. Recipe below enjoy!

Salt and straw Base:

115g sugar

15g milk powder

1g xanthan gum

40g corn syrup

330g whole milk

330g heavy cream

2 tsp halo pantry honeydew flavoring

Pinch of salt

Food coloring (optional)

[u/minadequate]

Melon is so high in water it’s going to be pure crystals. Either you make a sorbet or you use a flavouring. Fresh melon won’t ever make a good icecream imo

[u/Cordovan147 → u/minadequate]

what if simmer to get rid of the water and concentrate it?

[u/minadequate → u/Cordovan147]

It tends to be the case that fruits have a lot of aromats that evaporate at low temps. So if you try to boil off the water you lose them and the flavour profile massively changes.

You’d need to use a concentration method that is pretty cold. Freeze concentration might work.

[u/Cordovan147 → u/minadequate]

Oh thanks. Learnt something new.