Claudio Cantaloupe Ice Cream

Above: A scoop of Claudio Cantaloupe ice cream, a new flavor available only in our scoop shops.

We have lots of flavors for you to taste this weekend in our shops, including the new Claudio Cantaloupe ice cream. Beginning today, we've added a small batch of the great Claudio Cantaloupe only to our dipping cabinets (supplies are very limited; pints are not available in shops or at jenis.com).

A delicious, buttery, velvety, and floral blend of cantaloupe, sweet Ohio grass-grazed cream, and Ohio wildflower honey (and a few other ingredients we'll get to below), Claudio Cantaloupe is a throwback to the early days of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams when Jeni herself made every flavor, every day behind the counter in the North Market.

Back then, a sweet customer named Claudio used to tout Jeni's cantaloupe ice cream as Jeni's best performance and his hands-down favorite flavor. Jeni, nothing if not in tune with the feedback of the fans, named the ice cream Claudio Cantaloupe.

And Claudio? Word is he ran off to Italy to elope with his beloved.

So, thank you, Claudio, wherever you are, for inspiring the special new addition to our late-summer menu — a limited-edition delight we make this way:

Above: The arrival of super-aromatic Ohio cantaloupes.

Above: Cantaloupes drying after a bath in the cleansing vinegar solution we use to kill any bacteria.

Above: The great halving of the melons.

Above: Line 'em up, scoop 'em out.

Above: Pureeing the cantaloupe.

Above: Straining before the boil.

Above: Cantaloupe aboil with sugar, sea salt, Ohio honey, and grass-grazed Ohio cream.

Above: Claudio Cantaloupe ice cream. Available only in scoops, only in our shops (all of our shops) in Ohio and Tennessee.

Comments

[Jaime Krupp]

I absolutely must have the recipe to this ice cream. I got to have it in Nashville and was crushed that it wasn't in your cookbook.

...I need this in my life. :)