Name: Gelato Alla Vaniglia (Vanilla Ice Cream)
Yield: Makes 1 litre
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 100 ml double cream; zest of 1 lemon; 500 ml whole milk; 2 vanilla pods; 165 g caster sugar; 5 medium free range egg yolks

Preparation info

Makes
1 litre

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from Brixton Village

By Miss South

Published 2014

About

When you taste this, you’ll never again describe something dull as ‘vanilla’. It’s some of the best ice cream I’ve ever eaten...

Ingredients

5 medium free range egg yolks
165 g caster sugar
2 vanilla pods<

Method

This uses the same base gelato that the chocolate ice cream on the next page uses, but with vanilla and lemon instead of chocolate.

Prepare two bowls, a bigger one filled with ice cubes and a smaller one into which you will pour the cooked ice cream mixture. Put the small bowl inside the big one, making sure the ice surrounds it but that the inner bowl is dry, to create an ice ba