Recipes for Making Your Own Ice Cream

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Cookie Dough Ice Cream



2 cups milk

1 3/4 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon vanilla

4 cups heavy cream

1 cup chocolate chip cookie dough

2 cups light cream

Scald milk until bubbles form around edge. Remove from heat. Add the sugar and salt. Stir until dissolved. Stir in light cream, vanilla, and the heavy cream. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Freeze as directed by your ice cream machine's instructions. Once ice cream has been through the entire ice cream machine process and is now a chilled soft ice cream, add the chocolate chip cookie dough. Just break up the dough as best you can with your hands and drop it in small clusters into the soft ice cream. Try to mix it around to ensure that the cookie dough is evenly distributed throughout the ice cream. Put the ice cream in the freezer for several hours until hardened.

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Dark Chocolate Ice Cream


4 ounces unsweetened chocolate

1 cup milk

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 cup heavy cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 pinch salt

Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot (not boiling) water. Gradually whisk in milk, stir until smooth. Remove from heat and let it cool.

Whisk eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually whisk in sugar, then continue whisking 1 minute, until completely blended. Add the cream, vanilla, and salt; whisk. Add the chocolate mixture; blend well. Cover, chill, and freeze according to ice cream maker's directions.

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Eggnog Ice Cream



6 eggs, separated

10 tablespoons sugar

pinch of salt

1/4 cup brandy

1/4 cup rum

2 tablespoons dry sherry

1 cup milk

2 cup heavy cream

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated

Cook the egg yolks, sugar, salt, brandy, rum and sherry in a double boiler until very light and thickened. Remove from heat, add the milk and cream; cool. Beat the egg whites until stiff, fold them in the cream mixture. Pour into a ice creammachine and process according to manufacturer's directions. Sprinkle with nutmeg before serving.