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Servings 1 quart

Ingredients
  

ice cream

  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • ½ cup honey
  • ¼ teaspoon ground vanilla bean or ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon vodka

charoset

  • 1 cup chopped apples
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • ¼ cup Manischewitz or red table wine
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3 pinches sea salt

Instructions
 

  • Make sure the freezing bowl of your ice cream maker is in the freezer at least 24 hours before you begin making this recipe.
  • In a large stock pot, warm milk, cream, honey, vanilla, and sea salt over medium-low flame. Whisk as it heats, just until steam rises. Remove from heat and pour into a large bowl.
  • Pour 1 cup of the milk mixture in a small saucepan. While vigorously whisking, add in one yolk at a time, until thoroughly incorporated. Keep whisking, and place saucepan over very low flame. Heat and whisk until a custard forms that coats the back of a spoon, about 15 minutes (good arm workout, bro!).
  • Remove from heat and whisk the custard back into the rest of the ice cream mixture. Let cool in fridge for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
  • While it’s cooling, mix together all ingredients for charoset—apples, walnuts, cinnamon, sea salt, honey, and wine—in a bowl and set aside.
  • Once your custard is completely cool (after 4+ hours), remove from fridge and whisk vigorously to recombine the cream that’s risen to the top. Pour through a fine strainer and whisk to reincorporate.
  • Set up your ice cream maker, turn it on, and pour in your custard. Let it churn until thick and frozen, about 20-25 minutes depending on your machine. In the last minutes, add in 1 tablespoon of vodka—it will help keep the ice cream scoopable when it’s in the freezer.
  • Use a silicone spatula to transfer the ice cream from the machine to a bread pan for freezing. Spoon in the charoset, swirling and turning it into the ice cream to distribute evenly throughout. Cover your ice cream with a piece of plastic wrap and place in the freezer for several hours.
  • Enjoy after recounting the woes of the Jews—release that Jewish guilt and say yes to the charoset ice cream dream.