Caramel Ice Cream

Ingredients

• 1 gallon of milk
• 2 cups of white sugar
• the yolks of 16 eggs
• 2 cups of brown sugar well burned

Method

1. 1

   Burnt sugar ice cream is made by pouring boiled custard, a little at a time, over a frying-pan in which brown sugar has been burned until it is a dark brown color.

2. 2

   Keep on adding the custard, stirring all the time until the whole is smooth and the pan is full, then pour the contents back into the main bowl of custard, which should be the color of strong coffee when it is all mixed.

3. 3

   The art in making this cream is in burning the sugar until it is exactly right.

4. 4

   If this is properly prepared you have only to freeze it like any other custard.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Caramel Ice Cream — Burnt sugar ice cream is a favorite dish in Virginia, and it is often called caramel cream on account of its peculiar color, though it requires neither chocolate nor vanilla. It is made by pouring boiled custard, a little at a time, over a frying-pan in which brown sugar has been burned until it is a dark brown color. Keep on adding the custard, stirring all the time until the whole is smooth and the pan is full, then pour the contents back into the main bowl of custard, which should be the color of strong coffee when it is all mixed. The art in making this cream is in burning the sugar until it is exactly right. If this is properly prepared you have only to freeze it like any other custard. For 1 gallon it requires 1 gallon of milk, 2 cups of white sugar, the yolks of 16 eggs, and 2 cups of brown sugar well burned

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