Old-fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream
photo by PaulaG
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
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5 cups
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise
- 1 cup milk
- 6 egg yolks, beaten lightly
- 2 cups cream
directions
- Place sugar and vanilla beans in medium heatproof bowl; pour milk over; set bowl into a pan of simmering water, but make sure it doesn’t touch water; stir milk mixture until simmering.
- Remove milk from heat; place yolks in heatproof bowl; gradually add milk to the egg yolks and whisk through thoroughly.
- Return mixture to heat over simmering water; stir constantly over low heat until mixture coats back of spoon.
- Remove from heat, set aside to cool; place plastic wrap directly onto surface of custard to prevent a skin from forming; cool; once cool, stir cream into custard and chill in refrigerator for atleast 4 hours, preferably overnight.
- Remove vanilla beans from custard and scrape the seeds from the beans into the mixture; discard pods; pour the custard into an ice cream maker and follow manufacturer’s instructions to make ice cream.
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Everyone wanted to give this recipe more than 5 stars; however, that is as high as it can be rated. It is wonderful, creamy, dreamy ice cream. It was served with Knobby Apple Cake recipe #140400 and by itself. I used the old fashioned double boiler that I have and it worked like a charm. This is definitely a keeper recipe.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.