Home Made Ice Cream

[stillaphlopin]

Does anyone have any good and simple recipes for vanilla ice cream? My sister gave me an ice cream maker a while ago and I am finally thinking about using it. I only know to get some rock salt and vanilla.

What the hell does the rock salt do anyway?

 

[ajax]

My wife makes a very good slightly-burnt caramel flavored ice cream. It's slightly burnt on purpose to give it some complexity - there's a little bit of bitterness and that burnt caramelly/smokey flavor, otherwise it'd be just plain caramel like you can get from Hagen Daagz. There are no caramel chunks in it because that sweetness is just overwhelming.

I'll ask her about it when I get home.

 

[runner]

Here is one I have used for many, many years.

3 eggs
1 can evaporated milk
1-3/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
1 pint half & half
milk

mix everything together except the milk. pour into ice cream freezer, and fill with milk about 3/4 or a bit more full.

use ice and rock salt around the freezer

crank until hard to crank

Pull out the mixer thing in the middle, pack with ice and rock salt and let sit for at least an hour. enjoy.

The salt makes the ice get below freezing, so the ice cream freezes.

 

[S197HQQKEM]

Cook 'em Horns has a good one that can be made as vanilla or peach, I would type it out but I am in Miami and my Cook 'em Horns is at home in Orlando.

 

[brntorng]

The rock salt package should give the ratio of ice to salt to optimize the cold temperature. I think it's about 8:1 and you can get down to zero F typically. Just don't let any of the salt water slurry get into the ice cream.

 

[NickDanger]

Let me also add that the flavor of mexican vanilla is vastly superior to the crap made by Adam's. There is no piss in Corona and mexican vanilla will not give you cancer. You can get El Vencedor at Central Market. Don't follow the recipe. Add more. You will be glad you did.

 

[Tonesky]

From two unnamed Vermont hippies known for their ice cream.

Sweet Cream Base:
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup milk

Whisk the eggs 1 to 2 minutes in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Whisk in the sugar a little at a time until blended. Pour in the cream and milk and whisk until blended.

For vanillla, add 1.5 to 2 tsp vanilla extract to the base.

 

[12thStudStan]

ditto what Nick said about vanilla.

My recipes are packed away with my ice cream maker, but I do have something to share about ice. Get your ice at Sonic because it is already crushed, which works better than cubed ice.

 

[hullabelew]

Cinnamon Ice Cream. My college roommate used to make this stuff. It is great with apple pie.

1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups half-&-half
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup heavy cream
1 tspn vanilla
2 tspns ground cinnamon

- Over medium-low heat, stir together sugar and half-&-half. When it begins to simmer, remove from heat, and whisk half of the mixture into the eggs (do this quickly so eggs don’t scramble). Pour egg mixture back into the saucepan, and stir in heavy cream. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Remove from heat, and whisk in cinnamon & vanilla. Let this cool.
- Pour cooled mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to instructions.

 

[ajax]

I asked my wife about the burnt caramel ice cream recipe. She said she doesn't really use recipes but that it's simple to make. Just make caramel from scratch and burn it a little so you have that nice smokey tones to the flavor. Then use that in the ice cream.

 

[jimmycrackcorn]

Another tip from three generations of my family (it works best in fruit flavored ice creams). Take out some of the sugar and add a can of apricot nectar. It doesn't affect the taste at all, but it keeps the leftovers from freezing rock solid in the freezer.

 

[scottsins]

if you want to go with another idea, take some REAL vanilla (beans).. split open, and put in cream/milk mixture. gradually heat to a boil (i think) to infuse the vanilla into the ice cream.

*I do believe that this can get costly, since, by weight, vanilla is the most expensive spice to buy.

** second ditto on Nick's Mexican Vanilla commentary. that **** is allsome. just ask amy's.

 

[NickDanger]

The above post mentions real vanilla beans. I have no idea how to appropriately use real vanilla beans, but supposedly you can tell the best commercial vanilla ice cream by the presence of tiny black dots in it. Those are what gets scraped out of the guts of a vanilla bean.

I ended up making some vanilla/hill country peach ice cream this weekend - inspired by this thread. Very tasty.

 

[scottsins]

it's called the "caviar" i think. when you split them, there's this gunk that you scape out. i think people usually put the pods in too, once emtied, for infusion.

the flavor is potent.

* why does mexican vanilla taste so damn good, anyway?