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A syrup of sugar and water, sometimes with an herb, cooled and mixed with citrus juice, then frozen in a shallow dish while being scraped with a fork into ice crystals. Based on the recipes themselves here, with no verified source.

⏱ 11 min
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Cook the water and sugar in a pot until the sugar melted.
    StoveSmall saucepan
  2. 2
    Let the syrup cool completely.
  3. 3
    Add the lemon juice to the syrup and stir.
  4. 4
    Pour into a flat pan and put in the freezer.
    Freezer
  5. 5
    Scrape with a fork every hour to break up the ice crystals.
    Fork
  6. 6
    Serve in cold glasses.
205calories
0 gprotein
53 gcarbs
0 gfat
● protein 0%● carbs 99%● fat 1%

Per serving (163 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Freezer · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Refrigerator (Takes much longer) · Ice bath (For quick chilling)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Juice · Whole lemons (juice and zest) · Herb in the syrup · Lemon zest · Extra lemon juice · salt · Heat level (medium) · Syrup cooking time (3–4 minutes) · First freeze (time) (2 hours) · How many times (2–3 times) · Doneness cue (to a sorbet-like texture) · Garnish for serving (with a mint leaf)
  • How much zest to grate from the lemons: 2 tsp
  • Syrup cue: melted
  • Where to pour: into a flat pan
  • How often to scrape: every hour
  • Serving: in cold glasses

⇄ Alternative recipes

Custard-Based Ice Cream (Crème Anglaise) · No-Churn Ice Cream · Frozen Yogurt · Banana Ice Cream · Ice Cream Sundae

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