Christine Manfield

Vanilla ice-cream

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Christine Manfield

Published 1999

  • About

Vanilla ice-cream is perhaps the definitive ice-cream of all time, so please don’t get cheap and use vanilla essence or the imitation variety. This ice-cream demands the flavouring only available from the spectacular little seeds of the vanilla bean.

Ingredients

  • 2 vanilla beans, split
  • 500 ml full-cream milk
  • 6 large (61

Method

  1. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into milk in a saucepan, then add bean and bring to a simmer over very low heat. The slower the infusion, the better the flavour.
  2. Whisk egg yolks and castor sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy, then whisk in hot milk mixture.
  3. Stand bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water and cook, stirring, until mixture coats b