Sunday, September 28, 2008

Attempting Grape Sherbet


My daughter enjoyed the Hola Fruta! so she thought we should try making our own sherbet this week. We went to Walmart to pick a juice concentrate to mix with the milk for the sherbet. I should know better by now, but she went by color, so we wound up going with Welch's concord grape concentrate = the purple container.

Dubba's Grape Sherbet

The base was originally 1 cup of grape concentrate, 2.5 cups of 2% milk, and 1/2 cup of half & half to make up for the missing fat from the 2% milk. The flavor was very strong, so the list went on: 2 tablespoons of sugar, another cup of 2% (with a bit of half & half), couple more table spoons of sugar. Still strong, but we dumped most of the mix into the Ice-20 anyway (it wouldn't all fit).

The finished product is decent, but still potent. My daughter's first comment was "it's not bad, but it's not good either". Oh man, that's something I would say. As always, her opinion was quickly changed as she dug in. She went with a second dixie cup of taste testing by the time all was said and done. My wife also enjoyed it, definitely different than our past experiments.

On Second Scoop: The flavor has mellowed a bit, basically tastes like a grape popsicle now ...well, a milky grape popsicle anyway. You know, store sherbet often uses skim milk, so maybe I could try taking it down a notch sometime and see what happens (a nice ultra pasteurized 1% milk might work)

1 comment:

  1. I want to buy Grape Sherbet, not make it. Prince Castle used to sell it in there "Jumbo cone". Three scoops of sherbet, orange, lime and grape. It was the best sherbet ever. Prince Castle is long gone by about 50 years. Haven't been able to get grape sherbet since then.

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