Banana Ice Cream

What is your favorite flavor of Ice Cream?  Here is a recipe for homemade Banana
Ice Cream, that is worth the effort to make it.  Grab yourself a bowl or an ice cream
cone and enjoy!  The thing about making homemade Banana Ice Cream is that you
have to decide how that you want your banana mixture to taste.

Utensils:

One Large Mixing Bowl
One Wire Whisk
Three or Four Large Spoons
Two Large Bowls with lids (place the bowls in the freezer while making the vanilla custard)
Measuring Cups and Measuring Spoons
One Large Cooking Pan
Kitchen Candy Thermometer
Egg Separator (optional)
Freezer Container (optional)
One Fork
One Plate or Saucer

Ingredients:

1 1/4 Cups Sugar
8 Egg Yolks
3 Cups 2% Milk
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Dash of Salt
1 Cup Heavy Cream
2 or 3 Ripe Bananas (Mashed)

Directions:

Place the eight egg yolks in the mixing bowl, grab your wire whisk and mix the eggs yolks until blended.  Slowly, slowly, add the sugar to the egg yolks, while beating the mixture at the same time.  When all of the sugar is incorporated into the egg mixture, continue beating the mixture until it reaches the ribbon stage on the wire whisk.  This takes about eight or so minutes.

While you are doing this stage of the ice cream process, then at the same time, in a large cooking pan, combine the milk, salt and heavy cream. Place the milk mixture over medium heat.  When the egg mixture reaches the ribbon stage, while still stiring, slowly add some of the hot custard to the egg mixture until you have added about half of the custard mix to the egg mixture.  Pour the egg mixture into the rest of the custard mixture.

Cook mixture over medium heat until the mixture reaches 170 degrees on a candy thermometer.  Stir the mixture every so often as it is cooking.  When your custard reaches 170 degrees, take it off of the heat and add the vanilla to it, stir.

Pour the custard in the large bowl that has been in the freezer.  Place the bowl into the refrigerator until the mixture is completely cold.  About three hours.

Once your custard is cooled, plug in your Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker.  Place the freezer container (that should always be in the freezer), onto the machine, place the paddle attachment into the middle part of the freezer container, switch the machine to the on position, and pour in the custard.

About fifteen minutes after the Ice Cream Machine has been on, add the mashed bananas, while the machine is still running.

In around twenty to twenty-five minutes, you will have soft serve ice cream.  When the ice cream is done, turn the machine to the off position, take out the paddle attachment. Pour the Banana ice cream into a freezer container.  Let the ice cream stay in the freezer for six to eight hours.  Enjoy your ice cream in a bowl, or with ice cream cones.

*Note:  If all of your mixture will not fit into your Ice Cream Maker, pour it into individual bowls & freeze.