Oatmeal with Whiskey Soaked Raisins.

This one started a little different, I poured some whiskey over the raisins and let them soak that shit up as I got busy with the rest of the ice cream.

I started by making a pot of oatmeal, using half milk and half cream. A good amount of salt and some cinnamon sticks were added as the oatmeal cooked. Once the oats were fully cooked I allowed them to cool and removed the cinnamon.


As the oats cooled I made a custard. The regular mixture of egg yolks, sugar and milk were cooked in the usual way. As some milk gets heated, the sugar and egg yolks get mixed together. Then that mixture gets tempered with some of the hot milk. The warm egg mixture goes back in with the rest of the hot milk and is allowed to finish cooking for a few minutes. Once the custard was cooked it was mixed with the oats and some vanilla.


The custard mixture cooled in the fridgerator until it was time to freeze. I didn't add any additional cream, as the oats sort of took the place of that part of the custard. Once the custard was put into the machine the plumped raisins were drained. About two thirds of the way through we added the whiskey soaked raisins.
The texture was great. Little chewy oats are probably the best textured "add - in" I have come across so far. The flavor was right on. maybe a little too much vanilla, but that isnt really a problem. It tasted just like a slightly sweet bowl of oatmeal.
Eventually I got to share it.