elderflower sorbet – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:47:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg elderflower sorbet – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Harvesting Nature’s Crops https://shepline.com/2009/06/24/harvesting-natures-crops/ https://shepline.com/2009/06/24/harvesting-natures-crops/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:47:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/harvesting-natures-crops/ I know it’s late, but I’ve just finished up making batch 2 of elderflower sorbet. This morning I headed out early for a walk over to Bure Park in a hunt for elderflower. I found loads, and filled a bagful, almost overpowered at times by the fragrence.

I came back home and prepared my syrup, grated and squeezed my lemsons and plunged my flowers into the syrup before leaving the concoction to infuse for the afternoon whilst I journeyed into Oxford to make my pilgrimage to the jobsworth centre.

Having strained and frozen the resulting elderflower-sorbet-to-be – something that can only realistically be described as looking like tubs of frozen urine – earlier in the evening, I have now broken it up again and squizzed it with the food processor and blended it with the beaten egg whites.

Edit: The floor and the sides in the kitchen are now onimously and forever ‘tacky’. Hrmm, suguar… :-

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This afternoon, whilst the temperature was still hot and the sun was shining I went out and foraged the old hedgerows on our estate for heads of elderflower from which I proceed in distilling cordial and sorbet. Whilst I was out picking, a big black cloud passed straight over, but not a drop of raind did fall from it.

I made up two big batches of elderflower cordial and sorbet whilst all the time hearing reports via facebook and twitter of the massive thunderstorms and torrential rain. Looking out the window I could see the thunderstorm but could I touch it – nope. Most frustrating.

Eventually, sometime after 10 o’clock we did get a bit of a lacklustre excuse for a thunderstorm; it was big, it was black, it had some thunder, and lots of rain. I feel a bit better to have seen something of the weather… *grins*

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