Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   3                    Egg yolks -- beaten
     1/2  cup           Sugar
   1      cup           Milk
     1/4  teaspoon      Salt
   2      cups          Whipping (heavy) cream
   1      tablespoon    Vanilla
   1      cup           Coarsely broken chocolate -- Sandwich cookies

Preparation:

Mix egg yolks, sugar, milk and salt in 2-quart saucepan. Cover over medium heat, stirring constantly, just to boiling (do not boil). Refrigerat in chilled bowl 2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally, until room temperature whipping cream and vanilla into milk mixture. Add broken chocolate sandwich cookies. Pour into 1-quart ice-cream freezer. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions. If you would like to try vanilla bean, omit vanilla extract and add a 3-inch piece of vanilla bean to the milk mixture before cooking. Before cooling, remove bean and split lengthwise. Scrape the seeds into cooked mixture with tip of a small knife; discard bea