Vanilla Armagnac Ice Cream

• 3 cups heavy cream
• 2/3 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean
• 1/4 cup good Armagnac or Cognac

1. Heat the cream, sugar, vanilla, and vanilla seeds in a small saucepan only until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Be sure the sugar is dissolved - you will no longer feel any grittiness from the sugar if you rub some cream between your fingers.
3. Strain into a bowl, cover, and chill very well.
4. Add the Armagnac and freeze the mixture in an ice cream freezer according to the manufacturer's directions.
5. Spoon into a freezer container and allow to chill in the freezer for a few hours before serving.

heavy cream, sugar, vanilla, vanilla bean, cognac

Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/vanilla-armagnac-ice-cream-recipe.html (may not work)