World Famous Philadelphia Vanilla Ice Cream

This is a key recipe - use your imagination and add fruits, nuts and flavorings to make this vanilla ice cream into your own concoction.

Ingredients

• 6 cups light cream
• 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 2 (3 inch) vanilla beans, split
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. In top of double boiler, combine 3 cups cream, sugar, vanilla beans and salt. cook, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes.
2. Remove bean pods, scraping pulp and seeds into cream. Cool.
3. Add remaining 3 cups cream to the cooled mixture. Mix well.
4. Churn-freeze.

Attribution

Posted by philocrates at Recipe Goldmine 5/14/02 1:30:59 pm.

Source: The Complete Book of Homemade Ice Cream