Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream

This will make 1 1/2 gallons ice cream

Ingredients

8 eggs

2 1/4 cups sugar

1 pint cream

1  vanilla bean split

1 tsp lemon zest

1 gallon whole milk

 

Directions

In a saucepan  heat cream, milk, sugar and vanilla bean, lemon zest to a slow boil and remove from heat. strain to remove bean and zest. then in a heat safe bowl separate eggs and keep the yolks.  slowly temper the yolks with the cream

( very slowly add the cream to the yolks and mix well  adding to fast will cook the yolks )

Add the mixture back into the sauce pan and heat for 60 seconds stirring constantly ( Test with spoon, dip in mixture then turn over. If the mixture coats the spoon remove from the stove )  ( Do not boil )

Let completely cool away from the stove. Then place in a ice cream machine and turn it on. When this recipe was made Ice Cream Machines looked a lot like this.

And they still make them ( click the link below for Amazon Listing )

White Mountain Appalachian Series Wooden Bucket 4-Quart Hand Cranked Ice Cream Maker

Which is why I just copied the recipe itself with a few directions and slight modifications. times will be different on newer machines I would just follow the directions for standard ice cream according to your machines directions.