The ingredients: mint, tonic water, gin, caster sugar, lemons, water.
Weigh out 200g caster sugar.
Add 250 ml cold water.
Bring to the boil slowly (to prevent crystalisation).
Chop the mint.
Add the mint to the sugar syrup and leave to cool. Then strain.
Juice 6 lemons.
Pour 100 ml of Gin into a jug.
Add 300 ml of tonic water.
Add the lemon juice.
A rather large G&T!
Add to the mint infused sugar syrup.
Leave to cool whilst enjoying a G&T.
When the mix is cool, add to the ice cream machine and churn. Our mixture took about 20 minutes until it was thick and icy.
The finished sorbet. It tastes amazing, cold, refreshing, and both sweet and dry. A perfect sorbet and will make an ideal pallet cleanser course.
taste: 10/10, texture 8/10
Apparently it is possible to add a little gelatin or egg white to the mixture to help it keep its form and colour.
