Soft sorbet

From Soft serve Australia.

Sorbet is a frozen dessert made from sweetened water with flavors typically fruit juice or wine and sometimes liquor.

Soft sorbet

Soft sorbet

Sorbets may also contain alcohol, which lowers the freezing temperature, resulting in softer texture. In Australia, sherbet refers to a fizzy powder, and only the term sorbet would be used.

Soft sorbetSorbet is served as a non-fat or low-fat alternative to ice cream.

Whereas ice cream is based on dairy products with air copiously whipped in, sorbet has neither, which makes for a dense and extremely flavorful product.

Soft sorbet

• In Italy, a similar though crunchier textured dish called Granita is made.• As the liquid in granita freezes it forms noticeably large-size crystals, which are left unstirred.• Granita is also often shared with a fork to give an even crunchier texture when served.

Soft sorbet

The word "sorbet" is possibly derived from the Italian verb "sorbire".

Soft sorbet

Other folklore holds that Nero, the Roman Emperor, invented sorbet during the first century AD when he had runners along the Appian way pass buckets of snow hand over hand from the mountains to his banquet hall where it was then mixed with honey and wine.

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