Haagen Dazs Cookies And Cream Ice Cream

4 Tbsp flour
2 cups milk
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp sugar
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 small vanilla pod
5 Oreo cookies

Pour 2 cups of milk (I used 2%) in a sauce pan.
And stir in 4 tbsp flour.
Open up 1 small vanilla pod, scrape out the seeds and add them to the milk.
Alternately you could use 1 or 2 tsp vanilla extract in stead, but substituting one for the other is like comparing a Harley Davidson to a scoot-mobile.
Add 1/4 tsp salt. Somehow the ice cream needs the salt, it tastes ‘off’ when I don’t add it.
And throw in 2 tbsp granulated sugar.
Put the pan on the stove and slowly heat it until the milk starts to thicken.
This will take a few minutes. Keep stirring!
The ice cream base will now be much thicker but still pourable.
You don’t want it to be too thick or your ice cream machine will jam.
Transfer it to a bowl and let it cool off.
As soon as the vanilla milk has cooled off, stir in 1/2 a cup sweetened condensed milk.
This will give your ice cream plenty of flavor, sweetness and richness.
Let the mix get really cold before adding it to the ice cream maker. And I mean really cold.
Transfer it to the ice cream maker and let it do its thing.
This machine turned out to be a less than stellar buy, let me tell you that.
Right before the ice cream is done, crumble up 5 Oreo’s and add them to the machine.
Don’t let the machine mix them up too long, you want coarser pieces as well.
If it is on the soft side, put it in the freezer for another one to two hours.