Serious Vanilla Ice Cream

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Best ice cream I have ever had! I left out the preserves.

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I've used this recipe 3x now - the first two times as directed, except with 1 tsp of vanilla extract instead of vanilla bean (to save $. Then I found a place that sells the beans for $2 each (cheap by NYC standards so I decided to try the bean this time. It's perfect, and using the bean makes the ice cream much snazzier and prettier with the little brown vanilla flecks.

I also got some feedback that the recipe called for too much sugar in the first two rounds. (I have no idea because I can't eat sugar at all, so I never get to taste my desserts so I checked the other reviews and went for the 5.5 oz of sugar instead.

I've heard that these two modifications make all of the difference in the world!

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i love this i left out the peach preserves i liked it better that way over all super yummy

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If you really want something special, and you really like coffee (or you don't feel like shelling out for vanilla beans, steep some coarsely ground coffee beans (i set my burr mill grinder to 4 and as course as it goes in the milk mixture right after it comes off the heat for about 20 minutes, and leave out the vanilla bean. Then strain through cheese cloth to get the coffee beans out and refrigerate as instructed. Finally, if you want to add even more depth of flavor to your coffee ice cream, add some toffee chips (like Heath chips to your ice cream about five minutes before its finished churning. It can be served right out of the churn (i prefer it this way as a kind of soft serve coffee ice cream, or frozen and served after its hardened. Either way it tastes amazing.
That being said this recipe is also amazing as is.

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Tasty does not adequately describe this mixture. I've not tasted ice cream this good in a long, long time.

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A friend brought me some vanilla beans from a trip to Tahiti. We used them in this recipe, basically doubling the vanilla bean element to make a really strong vanilla flavor. It worked very well with this recipe, possibly because the peach acted as such a balancing element, so the vanilla taste was bold but not overpowering. My guests loved it. Thanks, Alton!

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Perfectly good recipe, but if you were really serious you wouldn't be mucking about with half and half and preserves.

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This is a great base recipe. I nixed the fruit and vanilla and instead added a whole jar of Nutella, yes I said it, a whole jar of Nutella... This is no longer healthy at about 3500 calories for the batch, but it tastes amazing and I am willing to spend an extra hour at the gym in trade for a few spoonfuls! I <3 Alton!

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I was hoping to find a good vanilla recipe that could be whipped up in an afternoon, but the wait was worth it. I didn't have peach preserves, so used apricot instead. Didn't seem to make a big difference. Next time I will get the peach preserves to see what the original tastes like, but don't imagine the taste difference will be that great. Oh, I also used vanilla bean paste, as I didn't have a bean handy. This will most definitely be used again and again!

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I whipped this up within the hour of first reading it and the next morning I tasted the most amazing thing. Truly one of your most amazing masterpieces Alton Brown.