Elle est arrivée !

[carswell]

Don't know if they've put up the "Elle est arrivée" sign this year, but Le Bilboquet's flagship product and homage to spring, la crème glacée à la tire d'érable (maple taffy ice cream), is now available. In fact, according to the clerk I spoke with, it's been on sale since they opened for the season last Thursday. That means you have another three or four weeks to avail yourself of this vernal delight.

Le Bilboquet

1331 Bernard West

514 276-0414

open daily, 7 a.m. till midnight

Now, would someone kindly convince Havre aux glaces to get into the act? Actually, with the maple taffy stand just across the way, you could buy a cup of HAG vanilla to go and make your own!

Edited March 24, 2005 by carswell (log)

[panadero]

Thanks for the tip, Carswell!

That ice cream is truly one of the nicest sweet treats Montreal has to offer.

M-A

[gus_tatory]

thanks for the heads up, carswell!

i'm going to go check it out since it's kind of in my neighbourhood...

but i also want to try to replicate it at home--i have a small hand-cranked ice cream maker...

will report back, but i understand their version has swirls/veins of the maple taffy in it?

[carswell]

i understand their version has swirls/veins of the maple taffy in it?

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Yeah. Real maple taffy swirled into vanilla ice cream at the last minute. "Last minute" is the operative phrase here — a couple of churns maybe? That's all it took in my parents' hand-cranked ice-cream maker to produce raspberry ripple. With maple taffy, one of the challenges must be finding the right taffy temperature: cool enough not to melt the ice cream but warm enough to stretch into threads that a spoon can cut.

[MaeveH]

I can't believe I've never had it! I'll have to go check it out. Thanks Carswell.

Maeve

[gus_tatory]

i had forgotten how much i enjoyed that straight-up, strong, clear maple taste until...

i went to the faux sugar shack at the Mont Royal Metro a few weeks ago and they had tire a l'erable sur neige.

now i'm stuck at work for another 3 hours with a wicked maple craving...