Melon sorbet
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Adapted after a recipe by Swedish Master Confectioner Jan Hedh. Any melon would do, but a fine Piel de Sapo (Christmas melon) can be strongly recommended
Ingredients
  • 450 gram melon purée (tends to require a melon about double that weight)
  • about 50 gram sugar
  • 350 ml ( about 1.5 cups) simple sugar syrup (proportions 150 ml (2/3 cup) sugar, and 200 ml (7/8 cup) water)
  • (optional, but recommended) about 2 gram Agar agar
  • (optional) lemon juice from about ½ lemon, depending on taste
Instructions
  1. Prepare the simple sugar syrup by mixing water and sugar (by heating it, or simply by shaking it). Let cool down.
  2. Cut the melon, remove the seeds and purée the fruit, together with the 50 gram of sugar.
  3. Mix together the sugar syrup and the fruit purée. If you want to make sure that you have the appropriate level of sweetness for sorbet, do the Egg test.
  4. Take about 100 ml (about 0.4 cup) of the mixture, heat to about 40° Celsius (104 °F) and quickly whisk in about 2 grams of Agar agar.
  5. When well dissolved, pour back into the rest of the mixture, whisk well and churn in your ice cream machine according to its instructions.
  6. In case you worry that the sorbet might become too sweet for you, add lemon juice from about ½ lemon (according to your taste) to the base before churning it.
Recipe by ICE CREAM NATION at https://www.icecreamnation.org/2012/09/piel-de-sapo-melon-sorbet/