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Article: TABASCO SAUCE ICE CREAM WASN'T SUCH A HOT IDEA
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2006
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He tried it, but the result wasn't exactly what he expected. After
all, how many people know that one ingredient in Tabasco sauce is
aged peppers?
Which is just what Vincent Petryk, owner and founder of the
Jamaica Plain-based J.P. Licks, discovered when, out of boredom, he
set out to create a Tabasco ice cream last summer as part of his
series of hot ice cream flavors.
Petryk, a keen fan of the spicy condiment, came up with a recipe
but wasn't getting any heat from his mix. After adding half a bottle
of Tabasco, he realized why his concoction wasn't spicy at all.
The butter fat in the concoction's sweetened cream base
"encapsulates the chili pepper oil in the Tabasco," explained Petryk. ...