Dad's Vanilla Ice Cream
My dad has been making this vanilla ice for his birthday for nearly 60 years.
Equipment
- electric ice cream maker
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 quart real cream
- whole milk
- 2 tablespoons real vanilla
- 1 dash salt
Instructions
- Pour all ingredients into the freezer, adding enough whole milk to finish filling the freezer to the fill point.
- Pour the mixture in a mixing bowl and beat on medium-low with an electric mixer.
- Pour the mixture into a large heat-proof bowl or pot. Place the bowl into a SMALLER pot of boiling water on the stovetop. (to create a double boiler) The bowl or pot with the ice cream mixture should NOT touch the boiling water.
- Heat the mixture to 175°F. Place the the bowl or pot with the hot mixture into a smaller bowl with cold water or ice water to cool it down quickly. (Don't get water in the ice cream mixture.)
- Pour the mixture into the ice cream freezer drum and place in refrigerator overnight.
- The next day, put the ice cream drum in the maker and follow the machine's instructions. When the machine is finished, place the ice cream in the freezer.
Notes
For a 2-quart freezer: use 1 pint cream and 3 cups whole milk.
For a 6-quart freezer:
- 9 eggs OR 1 pint eggbeaters
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 pints cream
- whole milk (enough to finish filling the freezer to the fill point, usually 1/2 gallon or less)
- 3 tablespoons vanilla
- dash of salt
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