sorbet
a frozen dairy-free dessert made with sweetened fruit juice or purée.
a tart or slightly sweet frozen fruit or vegetable purée, served either between courses to cleanse the palate or as a dessert: a refreshing beet sorbet.
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Depending on what you’re eating, you can opt for things like crackers, citrusy sorbet, and even pickled ginger.
How to enhance your senses of smell and taste | Sandra Gutierrez G. | September 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceEarlier this summer, Superiority Burger chef Brooks Headley churned celery vinegar into sorbet.
Fiber makes things thicker, which is why it’s great for sorbet.
As always, dinner, which includes a choice of salads, is punctuated by a sorbet at halftime.
L’Auberge Chez Francois is ready for its close-up, yet again | Tom Sietsema | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostNadia Chaudhury, editor, Eater Austin Brooks Headley knows that making sorbet is weird.
They choose from six flavors—including very raspberry, mango sorbet, the trademark tart plain—plus 30 toppings.
Frozen-Yogurt Shops Are Everywhere, but We Are Nowhere Near Saturation | Daniel Gross | July 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sorbet was tangy and was a tad tart while in the main course the pepper in the yam croquette brought it to life.
Even 103-degree heat could not melt the delicious sorbet palette favored by this mother of all style icons.
But the beauty of it is that it has the best qualities of both desserts: creamy like a sherbet, refreshing like a sorbet.
And now the sorbet cools our throats and leads us up to the game.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. SherwoodA sorbet made of the ripe fruit whets the appetite and the pulp is used locally for bites of venomous animals.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de TaveraThen comes sorbet, or Roman punch, much needed to cool the palate and to invigorate the appetite for further delicacies.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. SherwoodThe principal delicacy in these entertainments was an orange sorbet specially prepared by my own hands.
Outside, by the cracked pool, it was coming on slow twilight and that magic, tropical blood-orange sky like a swirl of sorbet.
Makers | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for sorbet
/ (ˈsɔːbeɪ, -bɪt) /
a water ice made from fruit juice, egg whites, milk, etc
a US word for sherbet (def. 2)
Origin of sorbet
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