Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Serves: 4

Kendrick Gleason

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

56

Spice

47

Sweetness

55

Sourness

50

mins

Prep time (avg)

5

Difficulty

Ingredients:

3 cups

Heavy Cream

1 cup

Milk

Directions:

1

Combine the cream, milk, sugar, vanilla beans, and extract in a saucepan over medium heat

2

Cook until hot but not boiling, about 10 minutes

3

Remove from the heat

4

Carefully remove vanilla beans and scrape the softened seeds from the pods back into the saucepan; discard pods

5

Place yolks in a bowl and whisk constantly, slowly pouring in 1 cup of the hot-milk mixture

6

Continue to whisk until smooth

7

Slowly pour the egg mixture into the saucepan, whisking constantly until well combined

8

Place saucepan over medium heat and stir constantly until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (6 to 8 minutes); it should never boil

9

Strain mixture into a bowl

10

Cool to room temperature, then freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions

11

Combine the cream, milk, sugar, vanilla beans, and extract in a saucepan over medium heat

12

Cook until hot but not boiling, about 10 minutes

13

Remove from the heat

14

Carefully remove vanilla beans and scrape the softened seeds from the pods back into the saucepan; discard pods

15

Place yolks in a bowl and whisk constantly, slowly pouring in 1 cup of the hot-milk mixture

16

Continue to whisk until smooth

17

Slowly pour the egg mixture into the saucepan, whisking constantly until well combined

18

Place saucepan over medium heat and stir constantly until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (6 to 8 minutes); it should never boil

19

Strain mixture into a bowl

20

Cool to room temperature, then freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions