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Our blackberries are beginning to fruit, and before I start into the real jam season, I love to play around with desserts. Crumbles obviously are high on the list, blackberry and apple, or blackberry with other red fruit YUMM….
But this year, I wanted to be a little braver and have started making the most wonderful black berry and mint sorbet. This has been devoured here several times over the last fortnight, but each time I forgot or missed the moment for pictures, so these shots are borrowed from Google. (thank you!)
To make enough sorbet for 6 people, I first freeze about 6 cups of fresh blackberries.
Then I make a light syrup using 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of water.   I drop a couple of handfuls of fresh mint into the pan containing the sugar and water, and bring everything to a boil. As soon as it boils, I turn off the heat and let the syrup cool down. This step could easily be done the day before.
I am also informed that lavender works very well in the place of mint.
When ready I strain out the mint leaves and pour the delicious smelling syrup into a shallow tray, and pop it in to the freezer.
The next step depends on whether you have an ice cream maker, and also how smooth a texture you wish the sorbet to be.
 For a reason I have yet to understand, I do not have an ice cream or sorbet machine.
 I am also happy to have a little fruit texture in the sorbet.
I therefore pop the frozen berries and almost frozen syrup into a blender and whizz away for a few minutes. When I think it is blended enough, I pour the mix into a deep tray and return to the deep freeze. Every 30 minutes I remove the tray and stir it well with a large spoon. After four stirs I declare my sorbet ‘done’ and leave it in peace in the deep freeze until we are ready to scoop out tasteful little balls of sorbet into tiny bowls. Add a couple of fresh berries for decoration, and a snippet from a passing mint leaf and I am in business.
I’m telling you: this is a breeze, and – providing nobody spills sorbet down their new white linen trousers (let’s not go there !) – it is a dessert that is generally acclaimed by all and sundry.
One day, when I grow up, I shall attempt this rather wonderful looking swirly combination of blackberry sorbet and vanilla ice cream, and that really would impress!
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I am going to make this today! thanks
Oh wow, this looks so easy to make and delicious too. I love blackberries and have a great cobbler recipe via my brother-in-law. I think the blackberry sorbet with the vanilla ice cream looks heavenly! 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend. 🙂
Yummmmm… my mouth is watering! Thanks for sharing your receipe! XO, Cynthia
Blackberries are just beginning to ripen here. I'm definitely pinning this to make later. It sounds delectable.
This sounds like the perfect recipe for now Sharon… we have so much fruit at the moment it seems a crime not to make sorbet… 🙂 xv
Isn't blackberry season divine! I love the marbled blackberry and vanilla ice cream!
Looks scrumptious and refreshing… Thanks for sharing! ~Karen
It's 91 degrees (F.) outside at the moment (HOT) and just looking at these icy, frosty photos makes me feel cooler. The closest thing I have to it, in the meantime, are frozen blueberries. When I was a kid, a neighbor had a blackberry patch, and I do remember the fun of picking berries warmed by the sun and popping them in our mouths, our faces and hands a mess afterward (probably a laundry nightmare for the moms). I have a friend who successfully grows blackberries in a small, raised bed, rather primitive, in a tiny, tiny urban garden. Organic is good! Coincidentally, I was just reading a new book yesterday, about the ease of growing herbs, mint being among the easiest. It's a goal for me; cooking with fresh herbs is just the best. Speaking of an ice cream machine…more childhood memories (I get this a lot at my age now, the look back!)…my best buddy from the toddler years had a dad who loved to hand-churn homemade ice cream in summer (it was A LOT of work!); no electric machines in those days. It would be vanilla, rich with raw eggs and milk or cream I guess, and he would toss in fresh peaches off the tree. We would be so hot from the day, and there was just nothing like that Arctic ice cream once the sunset came on; wow, what a way to end a funfilled summer day (I'm sure all of us little kids slept very good at night after all that summer playtime and real food!); these are days that bear repeating in adulthood, as much as possible.
Erm, actually, as someone who has just purchased their first ever pair of white linen trousers, I'd LOVE to know how to get blackberry juice out. That, red wine and chocolate. Not that it happened yet, but I have the grommit gene and its only a matter of time…..
….and I DO know that it's mad for someone like me to get white linen trousers, but I figure I'm almost 40. If not now, then when ? 🙂
Good Afternoon Sharon, those berries look absolutely yummy…Nothing like going blackberry scrumping, and its worth the black fingers and all the scratches that go with it!!! Even my Labrador partakes in scrumping by eating them and he has learnt to pull the lower ones from the bush!!! The Ice Cream looks so yummy mind you the sorbet sounds darn good too….Have a lovely weekend – Regards Julia
Stunning photos of your culinary creations! Those blackberries look beautiful and the end result scrumptious…
Lydia
This look amazing I adore blackberries; just lovely!
I recently acquired an ice-cream/sorbet maker from a friend for helping her move house. So far I've only managed to make pear sorbet, but seeing as blackberry season is upon us, it would be crazy not to try this recipe!
Thanks for sharing!