Vanilla-Armagnac Ice Cream
- Yield: Makes 1 quart
Ingredients
3 cups heavy cream
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean
1/4 cup good Armagnac
Directions
- Warm the cream, sugar, vanilla, and vanilla seeds in a small saucepan over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Be sure that all the sugar is dissolved; you will no longer feel any grittiness from the sugar when you rub some cream between your fingers. Strain into a bowl, cover, and chill well.
- Add the Armagnac and freeze the mixture in an ice cream freezer according to the manufacturer's directions. Spoon into a freezer container and allow to chill in the freezer for a few hours before serving.