Well, pooh.

[melo_annechen]

Since only my sister editor found Father's Day interesting, I shall retaliate with... Unnatural Ices

Doesn't that just send shivers up your spine? (C'mon, couldn't you shiver, just a little?)

Okay, to be fair, blueeyedtigress asked for it, after the soy debacle, and the frozen Bloody Mary recipe left her cold.

Adapted from Messrs Cohen and Greenfield, here are two of my favourites.

Beer Sorbet
18 oz dark beer (that's about 1 1/2 bottles, I trust you know what to do with the remainder)
5 T sugar (this is an approximate, depending on your taste - Guiness takes about six tablespoons)

Pour the beer and the sugar into a large mixing bowl and stir until the beer is flat and the sugar is dissolved.

Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Makes one quart

I haven't forgotten the temperance people in my list either.

Citrus Sorbet
3 lemons, chilled (or 1/2 c lemon juice) {or 4 limes = 1/2 c lime juice} [I go ahead and use the whole ruby red grapefruit, but I like grapefruit]
zest of one of the lemons or limes (or both, I like to live dangerously) [Not that fond of grapefruit zest, actually.]
1 c sugar
2 1/2 c very cold water

grate the zest from one of the fruits and set it aside.

Juice the lemons/limes/grapefruits/whathaveyou. Save the pulp but pick out the seeds and pith.

Stir the sugar and water together in a mixing bowl until the sugar dissolves. stir in the juice and the zest.

Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Makes one quart.

Comments

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

Of course I found it intereesting, I just didn't PTK on it. But it was used as input for my comment today on my post of 15 June, 14:31. Pls read it; I almost linked to your & wyrmwwd's journals, but she commented & gave me reason to reply rather than separately post as I'd intended. Not sure of everyone's netiquette on dropping peep's LJ links into my journal. Gotta run, will return/read above shortly.

Then we're awake, but we are very puzzled.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

The four moms article on the 15th, or the post today about the Breast Cancer Website?

Re: Then we're awake, but we are very puzzled.

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

AAk! The Net ate my reply! Yes the 15th.
Ah, well; less persiflage with which to burden you this version. Your Fathers post was part of inspo for my fathering/mothering comment.
Have sent sorbet recipes to foodie friends.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Waitaminute holdit [PAUSE] justasec! I commented! I commented in beta, sure, but doesn't that count?

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

Apparently there is no egoboo in beta.
::r/d/h::

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

and not all of it went through beta.

It happens sometimes when the idea hits you like a semi.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

True enough, mea culpa.

Are you old enough to understand if I say 'RAEBNC'?

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

'k.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have suggested that term be adopted into Netspeak. Honestly I am surprised that more Fanspeak didn't cross over into Netspeak. This and other fanzine-oriented expressions apply equally well.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Problem being, I think there were different lists. Leastwise, I saw an entire sheet of acronyms recently, and the only one I recognised was LOL. They didn't have RAEBNC, nor HHOK, nor ROTFL. I'm wondering if the folks who composed it had even ever been BBS-ers or APA-hacks ....

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

Hey, as long as it wasn't a PEBCAK.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I don't remember that abbreviation m'self, but I must needs remind you I came from the fannish equivalent of the Jersey Pine Barrens.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

Go Devils?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

*snort* Hardly. Not even that interesting, unless you count Superman looking into the Swamp Ape's existence while he was here.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Heh. Old APA-hacking acronym. (And as we all know, class, the APA was the precursor of the BBS, which is the ancestor of our current online fora ...)

RAEBNC (pronounced ray-bink) = Read And Enjoyed, But No Comment.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that's a very good one to remember!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I shall have to try this .......... these. Both. Really. (Beer Ice sounds truly decadent. I shall also try it with hard cider!)

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

But- will the cider go flat properly?
I know you know about ordering cider during your upcoming holidays; took us by surprize a few years back, it did.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

What's so surprising about cider?

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

If you grew up a Baptist in New England in the USA you'd have an entirely different concept of "apple cider" [or other ciders]; altho' this was not so in the USA before Prohibition, at the latest. Now I grok Strongbow, Hornsby's, etc. My first conscious try at English cider was, IIRC, Woodchuck. I brought the label home [might still be in a paper travel journal...].

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

My bad. I see by scrolling back up & reading your prior for comprehension you do specify hard cider.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

With cider, I might not add sugar. The Granny Smith Woodchuck sounds pretty good.

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

Wait...I had the Woodchuck here in the States? I did think it an odd name for an English brand....

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

Shoot, I can get Woodchuck (http://www.woodchuck.com/) out of Vermont and Hornsby's Hard cider (Gallo distributes it, not sure if it is produced by them) at my local grocery.

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

'K, so now I don't know what cider I had in England, but I think I prob'ly had the Woodchuck on a visit to MA. And the Hornsby's is just too, too common, darling.
We go in more for Martinelli's 'round the Kennel anyroad.

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

I think ye Englisshe cyder I had was Strongbow BTW.
Not to be confuzed with Stronginthearm.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

It may take some experimentation to get the sugar levels right with the cider, and my first inclination is to just try the Woodchuck straight into the ice cream freezer.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

I concur.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

*squee* love the "local 42"!!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Love the dancing Hobbes!

More Brainfreeze!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

May I offer another:

LEMON AMARETTO ITALIAN ICES
from a booklet mailed out on request from Amaretto di Saronno.

2 cups water
3/4 cups sugar
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
1/2 cup amaretto liqueur
2 egg whites

In a saucepan, combine water and sugar. Bring mixture to a boil and boil it for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon rind and juice and amaretto. Pour mixture into a freezer container and freeze until mushy. In the meantime, beat the egg whites until very stiff. Pour into a bowl and beat until smooth. Fold in beaten egg whites, then put the whole mixture back into the freezer container and freeze until hard.

Re: More Brainfreeze!

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

I like that one as well.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, cold sweetened citrus. Alas, I have no ice cream maker (although I got a little ice-shaver after making halo halo for Jared's 50th Birthday Luau).

I do agree, though - grapefruit zest has little to recommend it.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

In that case, try adding grated ginger, freezing it as a block for the shaver, and serve with red bean paste?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Hee. Might as well go get the coco gel and the yam paste and make a halo of it, then.