ROASTING APRICOTS FOR A SORBET…

Here’s a short & sweet post…great roasted flavours, that I made ages ago. Picasa has been misbehaving & lots of my files seem to have become inaccessible with a .ini file type. Naughty & bad Picasa! I can see the pictures in the folder, but when I try to open the folder, it says nothing to view. I have a few pictures of this beautiful roasted apricot sorbet which I had elsewhere, so I’d better get it on my blog before I lose these precious few pictures too!

A sorbet is ideally made in a sorbetiere, but quite good results can be obtained without a machine if you are prepared to spend some time whisking the mixture during freezing. This is the only way to break down ice crystals & produce a fairly smooth result – the more you whisk the smoother the sorbet will be. Here’s to elbow grease!! Generally speaking, you will get a better result by hand with a fruit puree than with a fruit juice. Thus spake the Le Cordon Blue’s ‘Cook’s Bible’…& I followed like a lamb, with my elbow grease!!

This is the only picture I have…& it was melting very fast at temperatures above 42 degrees!! This was originally headed for Mike @ Mikes Table for his event, but never made it in time. It had to see light of day eventually, so here it is!! This was my first attempt at a sorbet… & it was SO GOOD!! I eyeballed the amounts; shall try & put them into measures!

Roasted Apricot Sorbet

Method:

• Cut & stone the apricots. Lay them on a foil lined baking sheet, cut side up. Sprinkle some brown sugar over the apricots & bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes until nice & brownish orange, & gooey. Let them cool on the sheet, then scrape them with their juices & puree with an immersion blender.
• Add the the rest of the ingredients + a pinch of salt & run the blender again. Add 1 tbsp of vodka if you like.
• Freeze until semi-frozen, about 2 hours.
• Whisk every 1-2 hours until frozen with a balloon whisk. I then left it overnight.
• Served mine with some apricot kernels made into a praline with sugar. The pictures of course abandoned me!!
• Enjoy!!