More Strawberries

Here you can see how small my strawberry plot is, only 20 plants surrounded by coriander and poppies. The fallen red petals from the poppies often confuse me but picking strawberries means careful searching deep under the leaves. I found another 750gms of strawberries today.  

This time I decided to make a boozy strawberry and rubarb sorbet. I used two sticks of rubarb from the garden and sliced it thinly into a pan with half a cup of water an inch of fresh ginger sliced finely, 2 slices of candied orange, 700 grams of hulled strawberries and about 200gms of sugar and plenty of freshly ground black pepper. I cooked it all together for about 5 minutes until the rubarb was very soft and puréed it.  It has to cool down in the fridge but I am planning to adda. large slug of rubarb and ginger gin. Adding alcohol helps prevent large ice crystals forming as well as being delicious. I want this sorbet to have quite a kick to it.

I churned it in the ice cream maker and it made a wonderfully strong and spicy but creamy sorbet The ginger and black pepper bring a wonderful heat which contrasts well with the sweet fruit.  I can't wait to serve it up as a delicious interval for the adults during  a long relaxed sunday afternoon lunch with friends and family.I.