Caramel Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Make the caramel
Put 1 scant cup of sugar into a frying pan and stir over medium heat until it turns liquid and brown.
Finish the base
Make a foundation for ice cream.
Add the caramelized sugar to the hot custard in place of 1 cup of sugar.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Caramelizes to give the custard a deep, toasty flavor and sweetness.
- Hot custard base
- Provides the creamy body and structure that the ice cream is built on.
The step that matters
Browning the sugar. Sugar must melt and brown evenly over medium heat. Pale sugar gives little caramel flavor, while overbrowned sugar turns bitter and can ruin the batch.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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