Scotch liqueur and heather honey dissolved into the base together, the sweetness of the honey pulling the whisky's herbal notes forward rather than muting them.
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Ingredients
470gheavy cream 2 cups
245gwhole milk 1 cup
100ggranulated sugar ½ cup
85gheather honey ¼ cup
5largeegg yolks
50gDrambuie 3 tbsp
⅓cupoat crumblemix-in
4.5gvanilla extract 1 tsp
1.5gfine salt ¼ tsp
Instructions
Oat crumble: combine rolled oats, melted butter, brown sugar, and pinch salt. Bake at 350°F for 10–12 minutes until golden. Cool fully and break into small pieces.
Heat cream, milk, honey, and salt until steaming, stirring to dissolve honey fully.
Whisk yolks and sugar until pale. Temper in two additions.
Cook to 170–175°F. Remove from heat. Stir in Drambuie and vanilla.
Strain and chill 4 hours or overnight.
Churn 20–25 minutes. Add oat crumble during final minute.