Hello, dearest readers.

I hope this week has been good to you so far.
Summer is coming to a close, and as promised, I will hop right into reviewing the Summer chapter of Susan Semenak’s Market Chronicles: Stories & Recipes from Montréal’s Marché Jean-Talon.

Some of the featured ingredients of the season are strawberries, tomatoes, citrus fruits, lobster, cherries, corn, and more. The recipe we will be making today is Sgroppino.

Sgroppino is an after-dinner drink. It is a cool, frothy shot of lemon sorbet whipped with Prosecco and Vodka (and sometimes egg whites to add volume). It is then topped with either a ribbon of lemon peel or mint for garnish.

The ingredients are below:

I made an alcohol-free version of this by substituting alcohol with flavored carbonated water. However, for the purposes of accuracy, the ingredients called for are lemon sorbet, Prosecco (or any sparkling white wine), vodka, and lemons.

That being said, who has lemon sorbet hanging out in their freezer? Not me.
Thank God we have the Internet.

I navigated to my one of my favorite no-nonsense recipe websites (Allrecipes.com) for assistance, and voilà: Lemon Sorbet.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/77853/lemon-sorbet/

In essence, lemon syrup is mixed with carbonated water and lemon juice. The mixture is put in the freezer, where it is whipped every hour for about 4/5 hours.

This is what the mixture looked like after two hours:

This is what it looked like after 3 hours:

And this is what it looked like overnight:

It grew by a full cup! That’s why they recommend putting the mixture in a tall canister.

Once my sorbet was ready, I whipped it with some citrus-flavored Perrier carbonated water and topped it with a mint leaf. The final results were not disappointing: it was tart, refreshing, sweet, bubbly and light– with alcohol, I imagine it is even more divine.

The recipe itself is not original as Sgroppino is a popular Venetian drink, and I wish the author had included a sorbet recipe for the reader’s convenience as well. That being said, the amounts and ingredients are accurate, and the recipe is a great addition to the Summer chapter!

Have a wonderful rest of your week, friends, and may the Sgroppino lighten the remaining days of your Summer.

Lots of love,
Evy.