Becca Loves Food: Joy's Vanilla Ice Cream

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Joy's Vanilla Ice Cream

For Christmas I got my husband two vials of vanilla beans and we've been carefully hoarding them until we can find some recipes worthy of the black beauties. This seemed to be a good one to start on...

Joy's Vanilla Ice Cream

1 c. heavy cream
3/4 c. sugar
pinch salt
1 vanilla bean
2 c. heavy cream
1 c. whole milk

Combine one cup of cream, the sugar and the salt in a saucepan. Split and scrape the vanilla bean in, and add the open bean. Bring to a simmer and dissolve the sugar.
Pour into a bowl and add the remaining cream and milk.
Refridgerate overnight, remove the bean, and freeze in a ice cream maker.

Rating: A. Totally easy and very yummy.

2 comments:

queenannJanuary 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Few things in life bring me as much pleasure as homemade vanilla ice cream.

When I was little, I remember my dad saying that vanilla ice cream was his favorite. So weird and boring, I thought. But I now...how things have changed.

Also, very partial to cinnamon ice cream, made with vanilla bean and eggs (and cinnamon, of course). I'll have to dig up the recipe....
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MandBJanuary 14, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Yum, please do!
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