Slice a vanilla bean, and boil it slowly in half a pint of
milk/till all the strength is extracted and the milk highly
flavoured with the vanilla. Then strain its and set it aside. Mix
a quart of cream and a pint of milk, or, if you cannot procure
cream, take three pints of rich milk, and put them into a skillet
or sauce-pan. Set it on hot coals, and boil it. When it has come
to a boil, mix a table-spoonful of flour in three table-spoonfuls
of milk, and stir it info the boiling liquid. Afterwards add two
eggs, (which have been beaten up with two table-spoonfuls of
milk,) pouring them slowly into the mixture. Take care to stir it
all the time it is boiling. Five minutes after, stir in gradually
half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar, and then the decoction of
vanilla. Having stirred it hard a few moments, take it off the
fire, and set it to cool. When quite cold, put it into a mould and
freeze it, as you would ice-cream, for which it frequently passes.
You may flavour it with a tea-spoonful of strong oil of lemon,
stirred in just before you take it from the fire, or with a
quarter of a pound of shelled bitter almonds, blanched, pounded in
a mortar with a little water, and then boiled in half a pint of
milk, till the flavour Is extracted.