Basic Dessert Wine Ice Cream

Name: Basic Dessert Wine Ice Cream
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 larges eggs; 355 milliliters half-and-half (light cream); 355 milliliters low-fat milk; 4 servings Flavoring (choices follow); 177 milliliters sugar; 4 servings Wine (choices follow)

Basic Dessert Wine Ice Cream might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 4. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 480 calories, 10g of protein, and 15g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Summer will be even more special with this recipe. Head to the store and pick up eggs, milk, half-and-half, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a 2- to 3-quart pan, mix milk, half-and-half, and sugar. Stir often over medium heat until mixture just begins to steam and bubbles form at pan edge.

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Sugar

Milk

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Frying Pan

In a bowl, whisk about 1/3 of the hot milk mixture into eggs, then return mixture to pan. Cook, stirring, until custard is thick enough to coat a metal spoon with a smooth, velvety layer, about 20 minutes. Immediately, set pan in ice water and stir often until custard is slightly cool, about 10 minutes, or until cold, about 30 minutes. Or cover and chill cool custard at least 3 or up to 24 hours.

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Water

Custard

Egg

Milk

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Whisk

Bowl

Frying Pan

Mix wine with custard and pour into a 1-quart or larger ice cream freezer container (self-refrigerated or frozen cylinder, or use 8 parts crushed ice to 1 part salt).

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Crushed Ice Cubes

Ice Cream

Custard

Salt

Wine

Freeze according to manufacturer's directions or until dasher is difficult to turn.

Serve ice cream soft-frozen. Or, if making ahead, pack ice cream in a freezer container and freeze airtight up to 1 week.

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Ice Cream

Add 2 teaspoons grated orange peel to milk mixture before heating. To chilled custard, add 1 cup Orange Muscat wine. When mixture is partially frozen, add 4 ounces finely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, then continue as directed. Makes about 6 cups.

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Semisweet Chocolate

Moscato

Orange Zest

Custard

Orange

Milk

Per 1/2-cup serving: 198 cal., 39% (77 cal.) from fat; 1g protein; 6g fat (6g sat.); 27g carbo (0g fiber); 45mg sodium; 67mg chol.

Add 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1 split vanilla bean (about 4 in. long) to milk mixture before heating.

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Ground Cinnamon

Vanilla Bean

Milk

Remove vanilla bean from chilled custard; scrape seeds free and return them to custard along with 1 cup port. Freeze as directed. Makes 4 cups.

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Vanilla Bean

Custard

Seeds

Port

Per 1/2-serving: 230 cal.; 31% (71 cal.) from fat; 2g protein; 9g fat (3g sat.); 27g carbo (0g fiber); 68mg sodium; 100mg chol.

Add 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger to milk mixture before heating.

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Fresh Ginger

Milk

Pour chilled custard through a fine strainer into a bowl; discard ginger. Stir in 1/2 cup cream sherry and 1/3 cup minced crystallized ginger. Freeze as directed. Makes 4 cups.

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Candied Ginger