Farmer Boy Recipe - Homemade Butter Pecan Ice Cream

July is "National Ice Cream Month"!  What better all-American treat to celebrate in the summer?
Here is my recipe:

*Note: this recipe is for use with an Ice Cream Maker & makes about 1 1/2 gallons
Ingredients:

• 3/4 Cup of Butter, melted
• 1 1/2 Cups Pecans (separated, chopped)
• 1 Cup dark brown sugar
• 1/4 Cup Sweetened, Condensed Milk
• 2 large Eggs
• 4 Cups heavy Cream
• pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract

Directions: Melt about 3 Tablespoons of butter in a small pan or in the microwave.  Add 1 cup of roughly cut Pecans and heat, stirring, till evenly coated. (They will turn darker)  Remove the nuts and drain excess butter onto paper towels and let the nuts cool in the refrigerator.  Go back to the butter (you may need to add a little more butter) and add in 1/2 cup of Pecan halves and repeat the process.  After draining these nuts, combine them with the others and keep them in the refrigerator.
In a sauce pan, combine the sugar, milk, remaining butter - heat over low heat to a simmer, stirring constantly.  Let this mixture cool.  Add about 2 Tablespoons of this to the beaten eggs to temper them.  Then add the eggs to the mixture and whip for about 4 minutes. (You may use an electric mixer with a whip attachment and whip for only about a minute.)  Next, add the cream and salt.  Whip this mixture till it begins to foam.  Add in the vanilla while whipping.  Finally, add in about half of the nuts.  Place this mixture in the refrigerator to cool for about 2 hours. 
Prepare your ice cream maker and add the cooled mixture. Follow the ice cream maker directions. 
(*Note: about half way through the process, add in the rest of the nuts.  I've found that they will spread throughout more evenly, if you do this.  And you may find that some of the mixture, which was sitting in the refrigerator, had separated while cooling.  If this has happened, you can leave it without any problem, or gently stir it before adding it to the ice cream maker.) 
Yield should be about 1 1/2 gallons of luscious Butter Pecan Ice Cream!

This is a great way to celebrate "National Ice Cream Month"!  I hope you'll try out this recipe and then leave a comment here, telling us all about it.  And if ice cream recipes are of interest, I have others in my archives, take a look!  Thanks.  Maybe you'll want to sign up to become a follower of my blog & tell others too!
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