Vanilla ice cream
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + churning and/or freezing
- Easy
- Serves 6
Skip to ingredients
- 200ml whole milk
- 150g golden caster sugar
- 1 vanilla podsplit
- 568ml carton double creamwell chilled
- 6 (freeze the whites to make meringues) egg yolks
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal665
- fat58.8g
- carbs29.4g
- protein6.2g
- salt0.12g
Method
step 1
Put the milk, sugar and vanilla pod in a pan with a pinch of salt and bring just to the boil. Leave to cool. Swish the vanilla pod around to release the seeds then pull it out (rinse and dry and stick it in your sugar jar) and reheat the milk. Beat the egg yolks together and whisk them thoroughly into the milk. Put the pan back over a low heat and stir until the custard is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. Keep stirring and don’t let it overheat or you’ll end up with scrambled eggs. The whole process should take around 8-10 minutes.
step 2
Pour the custard immediately through a fine sieve into the chilled cream. Stir.
step 3
Pour into an ice-cream maker and churn until thick or pour into a freezer box and freeze. In both cases, freeze it in its box until you need it.
