Bacon Ice Cream #3
Bacon Ice Cream #3 was so promising… This time we made Bacon Butter Pecan Ice Cream. The butter pecan base was really yummy and we fried the bacon perfectly. Unfortunately, I didn’t freeze the ice cream bowl overnight, so the ice cream didn’t freeze in the machine. Instead we created a Bacon Butter Pecan smoothie (really good, but not what we wanted). We tried the old fashioned way:
We put all the ice in our freezer into a bowl with water and all the salt in our kitchen and stirred that and measured it’s temperature. Then on top of that we had the bacon butter pecan slush, which someone else was stirring to minimize ice crystals as it froze. Either we didn’t stir it for long enough or we didn’t have enough ice, or maybe this ice cream just wasn’t meant to be. After about half an hour with the slush no thicker, we gave up. I left it in my fridge and refroze the ice cream bowl. Four days later (the next time i had free time), I refroze the ice cream in the machine.
Anyway, I found the recipe from this site, but here is it is anyway - I’m sure it will be wonderful if done right!
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Butter Pecan Bacon Ice Cream
- 3 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup milk
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 pound bacon, cooked until very crisp, blotted on paper towels and finely chopped (about 1/2 cup)
1. Combine the cream, milk, and sugar in a heavy saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until hot and the sugar is completely dissolved, stirring occasionally.
2. In a small bowl, beat the egg yolks until smooth. Slowly whisk in 1 cup of the hot cream-milk mixture. Return the yolk mixture to the saucepan, beating constantly. Cook over medium heat, stirring continuously, until the mixture coats the back of a wooden spoon, 6-8 minutes. Do not let it boil.
3. Strain the mixture into a clean bowl and let it cool completely. Stir in pecans and bacon and freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s directions. To showcase the ice cream’s flavor, before serving, remove from freezer and let it soften slightly.
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