Frozen Fruits
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the syrup
In a saucepan, boil 1 pound of sugar in 1 quart of water until dissolved.
Let the sugar water cool, then pour it over the mashed strawberries.
Make the sorbet
Mash the strawberries in a bowl.
Sprinkle the mashed strawberries with 1 cup of sugar.
Freeze the mixture, then let it stand for 2 hours before serving.
Adjust sugar based on the sweetness of the fruit.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Strawberries
- Provide the main fruit flavor and the bulk of the sorbet's body.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the sorbet and lowers its freezing point so it stays scoopable.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar and adds liquid so the mixture freezes into a smooth ice.
The step that matters
Dissolve the sugar fully before cooling. Sugar that has not dissolved leaves gritty crystals in the finished sorbet. Boiling until clear ensures an even sweetness and a smoother texture after freezing.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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