Thanking you! Once I move & get my kitchen sorted out, I'll have to give it a whirl
Oh, and its double cream and whole milk. Jersey Milk if you can, the fattier the milk, the creamier the ice cream.
It's easy to do the ratio. I just get the larger double cream, a small 1 pint milk the steps is this….
Put all the cream into the sauce pan.
Pour milk into the container the cream was in, fill it half way. There is your 2:1 ratio. (I said 3:1 before but it's 2:1).
Add 1 pinch of salt
Fill the same container about 1/3rd with sugar.
Put half the sugar into the pan of cream. In a mixing bowl, crack in 2 eggs (you will see some recipe will ask for just the yoke, I have tried both, can't tell the difference, some ask for a LOT more eggs, some as for no eggs, up to you).
If you have no eggs, because of allergies or whatever reason, you can skip this step and put all the sugar into the cream and milk in the pan. otherwise whisk the half sugar and 2 eggs in the mixing bowl.
Heat the cream and milk and half the sugar until it's about 60c then put a little of that mixture into the egg and STIR, add a little bit more until about half into the mixing bowl, then pour the content of the mixing bowl into the sauce pan. You are doing this instead of putting the eggs into the sauce pan is because if you do that, the second your eggs hit the warm liquid, it will turn into scrambled eggs. If you add little warm milk into the eggs and whisk and slowly bring the egg's temperature up to match, it doesn't turn into scrambled eggs.
Now on a slow heat, keep it low and under 70c for about 10min stirring slowly and constantly until you can draw an line on the back of a spoon. then add a tea spoon of vanilla extract and mix it up.
You need to melt some chocolate separately, either microwave or over hot water, then pour it in and mix it together.
You now need to COOL it. Once cool you put it into an ice cream machine. When it comes out, stir in some chocolate or daim bar.