Blackcurrant sorbet

[Hilary B]

I haven't made it, but got it from a good recipe book
cook 8oz blackcurrants in a little water until very soft. Sieve
dissolve 4oz sugar in half pint of water. Bring to boil, then allow to cool.
Combine syrup and fruit pulp, make up to 1pt total.
Start it freezing
beat 2 egg whites to soft peak stage
Stir egg white and half-frozen fruit mixture together until thoroughly combined
Freeze until firm
I have made other sorbets using much the same proportions. (a bit more sugar with lemon juice).
I am planning a raspberry sorbet, will let you know how it goes....

[Flummery]

I've made is it married well with lemon sorbet - a scoop of each.
If you can be faffed (and I have!) you can make a batch of ice-cream and a batch of blackcurrant sorbet. While the ice-cream is still quite soft, put it in a pudding basin and insert another basin a size or two smaller, then freeze. You can usually sort of screw out the centre bowl (or put hot watr in for a few seconds) then fill with the sorbet and return to the freezer. When you're ready to serve, turn them out onto a plate. You have a rounded ice-cream mound until you cut into it, when everyone gets a slice of ice-cream with a blackcurrant middle.
Ice cream bomb!

Lovely. Worth faffing for a special occasion as it's not hard to do.

[Hilary B]

Sounds good, especially as my ice-cream machine only freezes to the 'soft scoop' stage.
I made the raspberry sorbet (same proportions and method as the black-currant one, except that I didn't cook or sieve the raspberries). Now in freezer to set properly. Looking promising, and tasted good in the 'transfer' stage.

[Nelly]

Love the sound of the ice cream bomb! Might try it with some blackcurrant yogurt ice-cream I've started and the lemon meringue ice cream my Mum keeps going on about...drool, drool.

[Flummery]

Thinking about it (I do my thinking a bit more slowly these days!) it's probably an ice-cream bombe! Whatever, as they say these days.

[HappyMouffe]

That sounds gorgeous, and very good timing as I'm picking my blackcurrants today (should it stop raining at some point).