Malaga Raisin ice cream
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In this close sibling flavour to classic Rhum raisin, the raisins are soaked in rich Malaga wine (a Spanish dessert wine). Mix the wine-soaked raisins to your favourite vanilla ice cream. Here, we will use a very nice custard-base, guaranteed to ensure a very vanilla fond to the raisins!
Ingredients
  • 250 ml (1 cup) cream
  • 200 ml (0.85 cup) milk
  • 50 ml (about ¼ cup) yoghurt (Turkish or Greek dense type, about 10 % fat)
  • 125 gram sugar (all or part of it vanilla sugar)
  • about 90-100 gram raisins
  • about (at least) 100 ml (about ½ cup) Malaga wine
  • 1 teaspoon good quality vanilla extract
  • 5 egg yolks
  • 2 tablespoons skimmed milk powder
Instructions
  1. Pour milk, cream, the vanilla extract and ½ of the sugar in a saucepan. Whisking every now and then, bring to a simmering almost-boil for about 4-5 minutes, then set aside.
  2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and the other half of the sugar.
  3. Little by little and while whisking constantly, stir in the heated dairy mixture into the whisked egg yolks.
  4. Once combined, pour this base into a saucepan, put on heat and - while whisking - carefully bring the base to the nappe-stage = 82-84º Celsius (180-183 ºF). Use of a thermometer is recommended!
  5. Take off from the heat and let cool down as quickly as possible. Then, whisk in the yoghurt.
  6. Put in the refrigerator to chill over the night.
  7. In the meantime, soak the raisins in a generous amount of Malaga wine. Set aside in the fridge.
  8. Churn the chilled the ice cream base in your ice cream maker. If you do not have any, still-freeze it using your freezer.
  9. During the end of the churning, add the soaked raisins (alternatively, add them as add-ins after the churning).
  10. Once finished, enjoy fresh or store in a freezer-safe container: cover with plastic film and a lid.
Notes
If you so prefer, a vanilla bean can of course always be used instead of the vanilla extract! Just remember to remove it from the base before churning.

For useful advise on how to still-freeze ice cream without an ice cream machine, go here: http://www.icecreamnation.org/freezer-only-make/
Recipe by ICE CREAM NATION at https://www.icecreamnation.org/2016/03/malaga-raisin-ice-cream/