In a heavy bottom pot, over medium high heat, bring the milk, heavy cream, salt and vanilla to a gentle boil.
2 Cups (488 g) Whole Milk, 2 Cups (476 g) Heavy Cream, pinch Salt, 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Once a boil hase been reached, turn off the heat and remove the pan from the hot burner.
While waiting for the milk mixture to come to a boil, blend together the egg yolks and the sugar until they are light and fluffy, about 2 minutes in a blender.
13 Egg Yolks, 1 ¼ Cup (250 g) Sugar
Create a liasion of the hot milk and the suggared egg yolks by whisking the egg yolks and slowly pouring ¼ cup of the hot milk into the yolks while vigorously whisking.
Repeat, ¼ cup at a time, until ½ of the milk mixture has been added to the yolk mixture.
Continually whisking, combine the yolk/milk mixture with the remaining milk mixture.
Return the ice cream base to the pot.
Turn the heat to medium and continually stir the mixture until the temperature reaches 175-185F or coats the back of a spoon.
Strain the ice cream base through a fine mesh strainer.
Immediately cool the ice cream base in an ice bath.
Purée all but ½ cup of the black raspberries and pass through a fine mesh strainer or cheese cloth the remove the seeds.
2 ½ Cups (300 g) Black raspberries
When completely cooled, add the black raspberry purree to the ice cream base and process in the ice cream machine according to the manufactures instructions.
Spoon ½ the semi frozen ice cream into your freezer safe container and spread half the whole berries over the ice cream. Top with the rest of the ice cream and the remaining berries.
Freeze until firm.
Serve