Description
This old fashioned homemade vanilla ice cream recipe has a creamy custard base and is made from six simple ingredients.
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1–½ cups whole milk
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla paste
- 4 egg yolks
Instructions
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In a medium saucepan, combine heavy cream, milk, sugar, salt and vanilla bean paste. Cook cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves. About 5 minutes. Do not let cream mixture boil.
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In a medium bowl, whisk the egg yolks together.
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Slowly, add the hot cream mixture to the eggs. Add ½ cup at a time while whisking constantly. Repeat until all the hot milk has been added to the egg yolks.
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Pour the mixture back into the saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring continuously with a rubber spatula, until the mixture thickens and reaches 185°F. About 5 minutes.
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Remove from heat and strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean medium bowl.
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Using a large bowl, prepare an ice bath with about 3 cups of ice and enough water to cover half the ice.
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Place the bowl with the ice cream mixture in the ice bath and stir once every few minutes until the mixture cools down to about 70°F. Avoid getting any water from the ice bath in your cream mixture.
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Place ice cream in containers and put in freezer for at least 1 hour before serving.
- Carefully add mixture into your ice cream maker and churn per manufacturer’s instructions. Place in airtight containers and freeze for at least 1 hour before serving.
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Enjoy.