I found this recipe on a blog and wanted to put it here for safekeeping, haven’t tried it yet, but it looks really yummy. The Belgian Pearl sugar can be purchased at Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Lars-Own-Belgian-Pearl-Sugar/dp/B001LDAE4C. Waffle iron temp is the key it seems to get the sugar to carmelize without burning.
This is a really easy ice cream to whip up and one that I make every Christmas to go with the Christmas pudding and with my annual Rumtopf or Brandied Cherries and Apricots. You can make it in an ice cream maker if you have one, but as it is a non-custard base ice cream, it works just as well without an ice cream maker. It lasts for one month in the freezer and is a great addition to the summer dining table too!
From Ruth Van Waerebeek’s “Everybody Eats Well in Belgium Cookbook.” Ruth writes, “The strong peppery flavor of the celery root marries extremely well with the sweetness of the potato, giving the purée a depth of flavor that is haunting and almost addictive.” She’s right.
Entered for safe-keeping. By Michelle Polzine, from “Grow”, Volume 1, 2009 by www.vegetablegardner.com. Prep time includes 1 hour chilling.
From Ruth Van Waerebeek’s “Everybody Eats Well in Belgian Cookbook.” She uses it as the stuffing in her Christmas Turkey recipe, which I use on Thanksgiving. The stuffing takes a fair amount of prep (and those porcini mushrooms can be hard to find and expensive; I’ve started skipping them), but people absolutely love it. It’s got a rich, complex taste completely different from the traditional bread-and-herb stuffing. (I looked it up: Forcemeat comes from the French “farce,” to stuff. The forcemeat stuffing is more like a meatloaf.) This recipe is enough for a 12 to 14 pound turkey.
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