{"id":21805,"date":"2017-04-13T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2017-03-28T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:39:51","slug":"sweet-basil-and-lemon-sorbet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=21805","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Basil and Lemon Sorbet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sweet-Basil-and-Lemon-Sorbet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21806\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sweet-Basil-and-Lemon-Sorbet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>2\/3 C. water<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00be C. superfine Sugar<br \/>\nZest of 2 lemons<br \/>\n1 large bunch of basil leaves (whichever variety you wish), reserve some to serve<br \/>\n2\/3 C. lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>Place the water, sugar and lemon zest in a small pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Remove the basil leaves from the stems (discarding the stems) and pur\u00c3\u00a9e the leaves in a pestle and mortar or blender. Add the lemon juice and basil pur\u00c3\u00a9e to the lemon-zest syrup, stir well, then allow to cool for 30 minutes to allow the flavors to infuse. If you wish to be posh, strain the infusion through a sieve or if, like me, you love the leaves, simply pour it straight into a plastic tub or earthenware freezer-proof dish and place it in the freezer. Generally, sorbet takes 2 hours to set. So that the sorbet is not rock hard, remove the container from the freezer after 30 minutes, beat the sorbet with a fork and return to the freezer. Repeat this three more times, every 30 minutes. You will find that this will make the sorbet crystallize rather than set as a rock of ice. Serve decorated with some fresh basil leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/3 C. water \u00c2\u00be C. superfine Sugar Zest of 2 lemons 1 large bunch of basil leaves (whichever variety you wish), reserve some to serve 2\/3 C. lemon juice Place the water, sugar and lemon zest in a small pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Remove the basil leaves from the stems (discarding the stems) and pur\u00c3\u00a9e the leaves in a pestle and mortar or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=21805\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[117,119],"class_list":["post-21805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts-fruit","tag-frozen-treats","tag-herb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21807,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions\/21807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}