A Week of Ice Cream: Cinnamon

Ingredients
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
6 egg yolks, lightly beaten
1 cinnamon stick
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1 pint heavy cream

Method
Beat milk, sugar and egg yolks in the top of a double boiler until frothy. Add cinnamon stick and ground cinnamon. Set over simmering water and heat 15 minutes, stirring now and then at first, constantly toward the end. Cool, add vanilla and cream. Remove cinnamon stick. Freeze in a crank – type freezer [hand or electric] or automatic ice cream machine, following the manufacturer’s directions.