Brown Bread Ice Cream
Here’s the ice cream recipe that Sean and I presented at the cooking demonstration during the food festival. We also made the chocolate whiskey sauce to go with it.
I know I have already posted a Brown Bread and Guinness ice cream recipe, but this has a new improved method for caramalising the brown bread – i.e. simply melting the brown sugar and adding the bread crumbs. It’s so much easier and tastes just as good!!!
BROWN BREAD ICE CREAM
Ingredients:
- 130g sugar
- 4 Egg yolks
- 220ml cream
- 200ml milk
- 1/3 vanilla bean
- 250ml volume stale brown bread crumbs
- 75g dark brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
What to do:
- Cut the vanilla bean lengthwise and put in a saucepan with the milk.
- Bring the milk to a simmer. Remove from the heat.
- Stir for about a minute. Remove the vanilla bean.
- Beat the sugar and egg yolks together until thick and pale yellow.
- Beat the warm milk into the eggs and sugar in a slow stream (don’t over mix).
- Pour the mixture back into pan, and place over low heat.
Stir until the custard thickens (around 60C).- Allow the custard to cool.
- Stir in the cream.
- Melt brown sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat until the sugar crystals have dissolved.
- Stir in the bread crumbs and allow to cool.
- Freeze the mix using a domestic ice cream machine, or cover and place in the freezer.
- Add the brown bread once the ice cream is thick.
Notes: 1. Use a very dark brown bread for best results. 2. If it is a fresh loaf, you can crush it into crumbs, spread it on a baking tray, and bake it at low temperature (50C) for a couple of hours to dry it out. 3. A fast way to make (small) bread crumbs is to use a blender or food processor.
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October 18th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I have to say I have never had brown bread ice cream but it sounds lovely and not too unhealthy, it’s got a bit of fibre in there
and anything with Whiskey is a bonus. Congrats on the success of the food festival.
October 19th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Wowy..that looks gorgeous. What kind of brown bread would you recommend? Would McCambridges be ok?
October 21st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Sounds lovely – very tempted to try it out. Could you make it without an icecream maker? Also, should it really read 200 cups of milk?
November 5th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Nice, sounds delicious! Any recipes though that dont involve making the icecream?
November 5th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Well, you can try stirring the brown bread into soft vanilla ice cream…
January 17th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Had my first brown bread ice cream at an Irish Pub in Phoeniz, Arizona USA. Found your receipe and it looks great – can’t wait to try it on my friends in Texas.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:54 am
my aunt makes brown bread ice cream and it is delicious.
June 30th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I have heard you can make ice cream easily using a quality pre-made custard instead of all the hoo-ha with the egg yolks. Anyone tried this or think it would be a good idea?
June 30th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
I can’t see why it wouldn’t work, but it could take a little trial and error to get the balance right…
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