Homemade Ice Cream Recipe

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Homemade Ice Cream is the dessert that made our childhood sweet

Secrets of a successful home made ice cream:

• Prepare the cream on low heat until it begins to thicken.
• It requires increased attention and continuous mixing.
• Mixing the cream to bain marie until it thickens
• After you put it in the freezer, you must take it out every 20 minutes and mix to avoid ice crystals forming.

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs yolks
• 300 ml whole milk
• 250 ml  heavy cream
• 125 g sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• pinch of salt

Preparation

1. Remove the seeds from the vanilla paste
2. Place the milk in a bowl over a low heat
3. Boil the milk together with the vanilla extract
4. Put the egg yolks into a bowl with the rest of the sugar and beat with an electric hand mixer for about 2 minutes until the mixture has thickened, is paler in colour
5. Add a pinch of salt
6. Once the yolks become a thick foam, start adding the boiled milk
7. Prepare a pot of water for bain marie
8. Place egg cream in the pot of boiled water and start mixing continuously until the cream thickens. Be careful not to thicken too much (when you put and remove a spoon of stainless steel, it remains a thin layer on the spoon)
9. Allow to cool and then refrigerate for half an hour
10. Remove both the egg cream from the refrigerator.
11. Add heavy cream over the egg cream and mix it gently
12. Put it in the frying pan or in the freezer.
13. If you put it in the freezer you must take it out every 20 minutes and mix to avoid ice crystals forming.