Old-fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise
• 1 cup milk
• 6 egg yolks, beaten lightly
• 2 cups cream

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 remove milk from heat; place yolks in heatproof bowl; gradually add milk to the egg yolks and whisk through thoroughly.
• 3 return mixture to heat over simmering water; stir constantly over low heat until mixture coats back of spoon.
• 4 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.
• 5 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.