Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Name: Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 8 (Makes about 1 quart)
Ingredients: 1¼ cups plus ¼ cup, whole milk, divided; 1 , vanilla bean, split and cut crosswise into 3 pieces; ½ cup plus ⅓ cup, nonfat dry milk powder; 1/3 cup (2 1/3 ounces), sugar; ¼ teaspoon, kosher salt; 1½ cups, heavy cream; ¼ cup, corn syrup; 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons, cornstarch

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2020

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SERVES8 (Makes about 1 quart)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

At the Penn State Ice Cream Short Course we learned that vanilla is by far the most popular ice cream flavor in America (sorry, chocolate). At the course we attended a vanilla lab, where we tasted vanilla beans from around the world. We wer...

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