Walnut And Pear Lollies And Rhubarb Sorbet: Jacob Kenedy’s Icy Desserts – Recipes

Nuts make awesome milks, and truthful they besides make awesome granitas, sorbets and lollies. There is nary instrumentality aliases problem to getting them right, but location is simply a magic astir seed ices that is arsenic jaw-dropping arsenic a magician’s enactment – delicious and sophisticated, without adulterating nan childlike joyousness that underpins each benignant of ice-cream. Then, I for illustration to observe rhubarb arsenic a sorbet, which is awesome connected its own, aliases pinch acold custard, aliases to travel stodgier puddings.

Walnut and pear lollies (pictured top)

This tin beryllium adapted for immoderate nuts – it useful peculiarly good pinch pecans (lightly roasted earlier making nan milk, and see utilizing maple syrup successful spot of nan sugar), hazelnuts (roasted earlier making nan milk), almonds (roasted aliases raw, tegument connected aliases tegument off) aliases pistachios (skinless, if you tin get them, roasted aliases raw). You tin get inventive and seasonal pinch nan fruit, too, but it is really only basal to adhd a saccharine magnitude to walnuts – different nuts tin alert solo.

Prep 5 min
Cook 1 hr 10 min
Freeze 6 hr+
Makes about 6 x 100ml lollies

220g walnut halves aliases pieces
100g achromatic sugar
1 ripe pear

First make a seed milk: put 140g of nan walnuts successful a blender pinch 350ml acold water, past blend , until they’re a very good texture, which will return respective minutes.

Strain nan seed h2o done a very good sieve, pressing pinch nan backmost of a spoon to extract nan past bits of goodness. Measure retired 450ml of nan seed beverage (if you don’t person rather enough, apical up pinch much water), past adhd nan sweetener and operation until it dissolves.

Roast nan remaining 80g walnuts very mildly successful a 160C (140C fan)/325F/gas 3 oven for 45 minutes to an hour, until ray aureate brown, past region and time off to cool.

To make nan lollies, disagreement nan roast walnuts evenly betwixt six lolly moulds. Peel, halfway and dice nan pear, past disagreement this betwixt nan lolly moulds, too. Top pinch nan saccharine walnut beverage to travel 5mm beneath nan rim, past put connected nan lid and lolly sticks, and frost for astir six hours, until solid.

Rhubarb sorbet

Rhubarb is specified a campy monstrosity of a petiole. I ever deliberation a bunch of nan glorious, pinkish ribbed stems look for illustration candles destined for a resistance queen’s dressing table, aliases Brighton stone being pulled to perfection.

Prep 5 min
Cook 10 min, positive churning
Freeze 30 min
Makes About 1 litre

650g rhubarb
200g caster sugar
50g ray runny honey, aliases glucose syrup

Chop nan rhubarb into 1-2cm pieces, past put successful a saucepan pinch each nan different ingredients and 100ml acold water. Bring to a simmer, past navigator for 5 minutes, until nan rhubarb is tender pinch conscionable a small crunch (it will support cooking arsenic it cools). Leave to cool to room temperature, past blend finely.

Churn nan substance successful an ice-cream instrumentality according to nan maker’s instructions until afloat firm, past put into a suitable container, seal and put successful nan freezer for half an hr aliases so, to patient up. If it has been stored successful nan freezer for longer and is excessively firm, put it successful nan fridge to soften until scoopable.

• Jacob Kenedy is cook and proprietor of Gelupo, Bocca di Lupo and Plaquemine Lock, each successful London