Rhubarb Spice Ice Cream

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Ingredients

2 large egg yolks about 2 ½ tbsp of yolks
2/3 c brown sugar
2 ½ c cream
¼ c fennel seed
10 cardamom pods
10 black peppercorns
3/4 c diced preserved rhubarb and liquid*

Instructions

Gently muddle spices together, just enough to break open cardamom pods and lightly crush peppercorns and fennel seed.
Heat cream in a small sauce pan until not quite simmering.
Remove from heat, add spices and allow to soak for 1 hour. Strain through cheese cloth – squeezing to extract all the flavor.
Whisk egg yolks and sugar in a metal bowl over a pot of simmering water until pale and syrupy. Continue beating until mixture is hot to the touch (120F).
Remove from heat. Whisk in cream in a steady stream.
Cover and allow to cool in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Fold in ½ c rhubarb and all of liquid and churn according to your ice cream maker.
When ice cream is almost done (holds its shape), add remaining rhubarb and churn for a further 5 minutes.
Scrape out of ice cream maker into storage containers and freeze until firm.

Notes

Preserved Rhubarb

*I don’t have a perfect recipe for preserved rhubarb. I followed one several years back that I can’t find again, but the principle is as follows:
Cut rhubarb into ½” wide by 2” long pieces.
Blanch rhubarb pieces for 10 seconds in boiling water and instantly cool by plunging into ice water.
Pack into a jar and pour hot sugar syrup (1 part water to 1 part granulated sugar) over them until covered.
Seal and store in the fridge.