How to Make Granita
If you are in winter camp or for those you that live in the wilderness this might be a nice diversion for a winter treat. You can obviously use the great outdoors in place of a freezer. You can also use dehydrated lemons, bottled lemon juice or other citrus fruit or use citrus that you have preserved (see recipe thread for preserving citrus fruits)
To make one quart (one liter) you need:
2 cups (500 ml) sugar
1 cup (250 ml) water
1 cup (250 ml) lemon juice (or other fruit juice)
1 cup (250 ml) ice and water
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind (or other rind as appropriate)
Method:
Dissolve the sugar in the water, heating it in a pan to make sure it dissolves completely and easily. cool. Add lemon juice, rind, and ice and water, Stir until the ice is melted. Pour into freezer trays and freeze.
when almost completely solid take from the freezer and break up the mixture. You can use an electric bater to mis it up in you switch it on to very slow or mix by hand. Return to the freezer for an hour. Take it out and beat or mix again. Freeze again for one hour or until firm. Serve immediately as a dessert or even to accompany meat or salad.
An instant granita:
Put some crushed ice in a glass, pour milkshake syrup over it and a dash of cream. The syrup Davors the ice as it trickles through it.
Grania: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granita
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