Burgundy Cherry Ice Cream

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup honey
• 1/2 cup beaujolais wine or 1/2 cup light burgundy wine
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 inches cinnamon sticks
• 1 lb pitted cherries, cut half the cherries in half
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise
• 1 cup milk
• 6 egg yolks, beaten lightly
• 2 cups cream

Recipe

• 1 to make burgundy cherry sauce: combine the honey, wine, sugar and cinnamon in a wide saucepan; bring to a boil and reduce to approximately 3/4 cup; add the cherries and poach them gently in the liquid for 3 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally; pour the cherries into a bowl and skim off the foam; cool; drain syrup from cherries and reserve.
• 2 to make vanilla ice cream: place sugar and vanilla beans in medium heatproof bowl; pour milk over; set bowl into a pan of simmering water, but make sure it doesn’t touch water; stir milk mixture until simmering; remove milk from heat; place yolks in heatproof bowl; gradually add milk to the egg yolks and whisk through thoroughly; return mixture to heat over simmering water; stir constantly over low heat until mixture coats back of spoon; remove from heat, set aside to cool; place plastic wrap directly onto surface of custard to prevent a skin from forming; cool.
• 3 once cool, stir cream and cherry syrup into custard and chill in refrigerator for atleast 4 hours, preferably overnight; remove vanilla beans from custard and scrape the seeds from the beans into the mixture; discard pods; pour the custard into an ice cream maker and follow manufacturer’s instructions to make ice cream; after 40 minutes of churning add cherries and finish churning; put into a freezer container and allow to ripen for a few hours before eating.