Maple-Candied Bacon Ice Cream and Rum n Raisin Ice Cream
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Assemble the ingredients: eggs, cream, milk, bacon, maple syrup, sugar, rum, raisins.
Macerate raisins in boiling water and rum. Leave at room temp for an hour or so, then put in fridge to cool.
Sprinkle bacon strips with maple syrup and brown sugar, broil until crispy flipping part way through (about 15mins). Important not to burn the sugar.
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The finished product:
Let bacon cool at room temp, then chop into bits roughly. Reserve a tablespoon of the caramel grease.
Make ice cream base. This is a pretty simple, no cooking method. Whisk three eggs until frothy, then add 1.25 cups of sugar a bit at a time, whisk again to blend (a good couple of minutes for conditioning), then add 3 cups of heavy cream and one cup of milk (1% to keep it low fat). This makes a good base for all sorts of stuff, fruit, cookies, candy, whatever.
I have this brand ice cream maker. Its pretty simple, put the bowl in the freezer at least overnight, and then it churns the ice cream. Think it cost about $40.
If you don't have an ice cream maker, don't despair! It is a bit more work, but simply place your mix in a freezer safe bowl and let freeze for an hour. Every little bit after that stir from the edges to break up ice crystals and keep it creamy.
Half the base mix goes in the maker:
Mixer does its thing for about 20mins until it has thickened considerably. Then add 1/4 cup cooled maple syrup, the tablespoon of reserved caramel bacon grease, and the bacon bits:
Rum and raisin is essentially the same, cream base goes in til almost frozen, add one tablespoon of rum (no more you greedy son of a bitch or it won't freeze) and the drained raisins.
Transfer to cooled container and put in freezer. Make yourself a ghetto mojito (limes went in after the photo) because... wait what? You dont need a reason.
The finished product:
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