Home Made Ice Cream

Classic Vanilla Ice cream
by Barney Desmazery's from GoodFood Magazine

Makes about 500g ice cream

Ingredients:

1 plump vanilla pod/ 2tsp vanilla pasta
300 ml full fat milk
300 ml double cream
100 g golden caster sugar
4 egg yolks

Directions :

1. Place container in the freezer. Split the vanilla pod lenghtways, scrap the seeds out with the oint of knife and tip into a pan with the milk, cream an pod. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and leave to infuse for at least 20 mins. For the best flavour, this can be done a few hours beforehand and left to go cold.

2. In large bowl, whisk the sugar and egg yolks together for a few mins until they turn pale and fluffy. Put the vanilla cream back on the heat until it's just about to boil, then carefully sieve the liquid onto the yolks, beating with the whisk until completely mixed.

3. At this point, get a large bowl of iced water and sit a smaller bowl in it. Pour the custard back into the pan and cook on teh lowest heat, stirring slowly and cpntinuously, making sure the spoon touches the bottom of the pan, for about 10 mins until tickened. Strain the custard into the bowl sitting in the iced water and leave to cool, then churn until scoopable ;

If with machine, whichever machine you use, once set up you simply pour in teh cooled custard and churn the custard until it's frozen, then transfer it to a chilled container.

If By Hand, Put you cooled mix in metal bowl in the freezere and when it becomes slushy, whisk it hard. Place back in the freezer and repeat the process two more times, then leave to freeze until scoopable. finally transfer to a smaller container, adding chunks or ripples if you want.