Hazelnut Ice Cream
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
1 quart
ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 3⁄4 cup hazelnuts, toasted and skinned
- 1⁄2 cup blanched almond, toasted lightly
- 6 large egg yolks
- 1 1⁄2 cups heavy cream
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
directions
- Cook 1 ½ cups of the sugar with ¼ cup of water over moderate heat until sugar is dissolved, and bring syrup to a boil.
- Boil syrup, undisturbed, until it is pale golden, and cook it, swirling the pan gently, until it is pale amber in colour.
- Stir in hazelnuts and almonds and return syrup to boil.
- Pour onto an oiled marble slab and let cool completely.
- Break into pieces and pulverize in a blender or food processor.
- Beat together egg yolks with remaining ½ cup sugar until mixture is thick and pale.
- In a saucepan, combine cream, milk and vanilla extract and scald.
- Add milk to yolks in a thin stream, whisking constantly so yolks don’t curdle.
- Transfer custard to a saucepan and cook over moderately-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture coats the back of a spoon, but do not let it boil.
- Strain custard through a fine sieve into a metal bowl set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and let it cool, stirring occasionally.
- Place plastic wrap directly on surface of custard and chill for 2 hours.
- Stir in the praline and freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
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What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.