Teabagging You Can Believe In

by tristero

Courtesy La Vida Locavore, and there are some other really groovy recipes over there in addition to this one:

Darjeeling Ice Cream

(any ice cream recipe can be adapted, simply by infusing the liquid with your favorite tea)
makes about 1 quart

1 cup whole milk
2 cups half and half (can use heavy cream for a richer ice cream)
¾ cup sugar
5-6 Darjeeling tea bags
5 egg yolks

Warm the milk, half and half, and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from heat, place tea bags in the pan, cover and steep at room temperature for an hour. Remove tea bags.

Rewarm tea-infused milk. Wisk egg yolks together in a separate bowl. Slowly pour the milk mixture into the bowl with egg yolks, whisking constantly.

Return the milk and egg mixture to the saucepan, and cook over medium heat, stirring and scrapping the bottom of the pan constantly until the mixture thickens to a custard and coats the spatula.

Cool the mixture completely, and freeze in your ice cream maker.