Homemade Orange Spice Gelato

The original recipe in my kitchen aid mixer recipe book (which I have already lost... see this keeping track was a good idea!) calls for the following:

2 cups reduced fat (2%) milk
4 strips orange peel
4 strips lemon peel
6 coffee beans
5 egg yolks
3/4 cup sugar


It sounded good, but not quite what I wanted to go with our turkey dinner, so I made some modifications:


2 cups reduced fat (2%) milk
6 strips orange peel
a pinch of clove and cinnamon to taste
some fresh grated nutmeg
5 egg yolks
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup splenda


It was a traditional "scald the milk first" recipe where you add part to the eggs and then dump it all in with the rest of the milk.  I got the pan a little too hot and got some custardy like egg chunk.  ( Sounds gross, but actually once I strained them out, they were delicious! Wish I could recreate that as a true custard recipe!)

 The ratios then were a little off, so the texture was not as consistent as I would have liked, and it doesn't look that great, but the flavor was phenomenal. If I didn't love my husband so much I would have told him it was terrible and ate the whole thing myself.   :D