Monday, June 8, 2009

Strawberry Sorbet

Are you tired of hearing about he ridiculous amount of strawberries that I pick? Me too! In fact I should be picking more right now but I need a break. I picked enough last Friday to make 2 more batches of sorbet. So I thought I would share with you how to make this wonderful stuff.


First go out and get some strawberries.
This is the patch in our back yard.

You will need 4 to 6 cups per batch
depending on your icecream maker.

I will write out the recipe, then in parenthesis I will put the size we do.
We do 1 1/2 times the original to fill our 1 1/2 quart maker.

(Wondering about the gloves? There are a lot of spiders
in our patch, the gloves make me feel better.)

Smash 4 cups (6 cups) strawberries in a large bowl.
Stir in 3/4 cup (1 1/8 cups) Sugar
Cover and let stand for one hour stirring every 5 to 15 minutes

After an hour, put berries in blender.
Add 1 teaspoon (2 teaspoons) lemon juice
and a dash of salt (2 dashes)
Blend

After blended, put mixture through a strainer
to remove all or some or the seeds.


Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.


Put into icecream maker and freeze for 30 minutes.
or as specified for your maker.

We have a Rivel maker that we got as a wedding present.
Peter would recommend the cuisinart ice20.


leave sorbet in canister and place in freezer for 20 minutes.

Put into freezer safe container and keep frozen.
Enjoy!

9 comments:

PRP said...

I am so jealous of all your strawberries! I think I got mine in the ground too late...

Good seeing you tonight!

Jenni said...

Okay that was really cool how you took pictures of all the steps. I had no idea that sorbet was really just straight up strawberries. So no sugar eh? Or wait, did I miss that part? That is really cool, I want to get an ice cream maker now.

Jenni said...

Nevermind...went back and read the ingredients again and found the sugar. :)

Amy said...

Wow that looks like a lot of work! Looks delicious though!
I am right there with you on the gloves. I wear mine to pick strawberries, too.

Danelle Grossnickle said...

That looks simply delicious! I am jealous of your strawberries now. I have like half as many bushes but I must have a different variety, mine are much bigger. The bunnies keep getting mine but I have caged them in finally. I will have to try your sorbet(I don't eat sugar but my family will be in Heaven!)

Heather said...

Oh great, just one more thing chock full of sugar that I need to be addicted too. Can't wait to try it out!

Sara said...

SO yummy I can't wait to try this out. Your year looks awesome as well.

Shelly said...

thanks for sharing the recipe, the sorbet you made was delicious!

Moore said...

You are my hero! Miss housemaker to be jealous for. I love how you so easily make and do stuff and share it with everyone. I am drooling over fresh picked strawberries. SAVOR every one of those jewels!