Mix egg yolk with some milk/cream mix well, add all with scraped vanilla bean to pot.
3
2 quarts ice in large bowel for ice bath, then heat other pot with milk/yolk/vanilla to exactly 180 F, instantly cool in ice bath.
4
Here''s the part I could not find in ingredient list: saffron and FOOD GRADE rose water.
I used 400 milligrams of saffron, ground in a mortar/pestle and 3 tablespoons of rose water.
Add this to the cooled custard.
5
Strain custard into glass container and cool overnight.
Churn in ice cream maker.
Serve with roasted (no salt) pistachios.