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Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe - Gelato di Crema alla Vaniglia

By Kyle Phillips, About.com

Vanilla Ice Cream, or vanilla gelato, is perhaps the quintessential ice cream -- perfect for toppings, and goes well with all the other flavors.

Prep Time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

  • 8 egg yolks
  • 1 cup (100 g) powdered sugar
  • 1 quart (1 liter) whole milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or more to taste, or a vanilla bean
  • An ice cream machine

Preparation:

Beat the yolks with the sugar; when the mixture is a pale yellow slowly stir in 1 quart of the best quality whole milk. Put the pot on a high flame and continue stirring with a wooden spoon until it begins to steam, then reduce the heat to low lest it curdle and continue stirring gently until it begins to thicken and sticks somewhat to the spoon. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or more to taste, remove the pot from the fire, let the mixture cool, and make the ice cream, following the instructions given by the manufacturer of your ice cream machine.

Using a vanilla bean instead of extract? Heat it with the milk, and remove it before putting the cream into the ice cream machine.

Yield: 4-6 servings vanilla gelato.
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