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June 20, 2006

Watermelon sorbet ()

by fluffy at 9:46 PM
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 small seedless watermelon
  • 1/4 cup lime juice
  • 2 shots triple sec
Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and stir until clear. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes or so.

Meanwhile, remove the rind from the watermelon, cut into segments, and put into a food processor or blender and blend to a pulp. Remove any seeds (yes I know it was "seedless" but, no). Put 4-5 cups of the watermelon pulp into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar syrup, lime juice, and triple sec.

From here you can do one of a few different things:

  • You can pour it into an ice cream churn and churn until frozen
  • Put it into a freezer-safe container and freeze in a really cold freezer, stirring it with a fork every half hour or so; when it sets, break it up and use a blender to break up the crystals until smooth and aerated
  • Pour it into a few large, strong zipper bags, and puts those in a large garbage bag. Fill the garbage bag with ice and rock salt. Take the garbage bag to a park and roll it around, Katamari-style, for a few hours.
If it has trouble setting, add more lime juice. If it's solid as a rock, add more triple sec. If it's too sour (you are tasting it, right?), add more sugar syrup.

However you get a nicely churned frozen sorbet, put it all into a freezer-safe container and pack it down, and put it in a really cold (around 0°F/-17°C, if possible) freezer for several hours to set.

I just had the first taste of this post-setting, and... wow.

Comments

#7633 Vladinator 06/21/2006 06:27 pm I'd like a virgin
What's it like without the tripple sec at all? I don't drink alcohol, or consume things with alcohol still in them, due to my sobriety...
#7634 fluffy 06/21/2006 08:15 pm I'm a virgin!
The alcohol keeps it from freezing into a gigantic ice cube. Even with an ice cream churn, omitting it makes it a much firmer set due to the higher freezing point.

The overall alcohol level isn't much higher than a loaf of bread, though. It's around 0.5% by volume.

Anything dissolved in the liquid will lower the freezing point, though. You can add more sugar (and more lime juice to compensate), for example. Or you could freeze it to a higher temperature but then it'll melt more quickly and become more of a slush before you can even finish dishing it out. Or you could add salt or antifreeze.
#7635 Vladinator 06/22/2006 07:41 am :-)
Antifreeze??? Doesn't that cause liver failure?
#7636 fluffy 06/22/2006 08:10 am
These are the jokes.
#7637 Vladinator 06/22/2006 08:37 am lol what?
fluffy:
These are the jokes.


lol - yes - and antifreeze causes kidney failure, not liver... Alcohol, which is sometimes called antifreeze causes liver damage... I guess it was kind of subtle. No, wait, not subtle, the other word... stupid. Yes, that's the right word. Smile
#7639 Linktoreality 06/23/2006 01:04 am
Y'know, I never really cared what exact health problems come about from drinking antifreeze. All I care is, it causes death.

...I'd probably try making this, were I not lazy, and if Las Cruces wasn't having an oddly mild Summer. Sounds really good, though!