Fruit ice can be pampered not only inhot summer day. It can be a wonderful dessert in the winter - if you serve it with hot tea and honey. After all, in the winter it is so nice to remember the flavors of the summer garden! And this goodies can be easily treated to children, because the fruit ice prepared at home does not contain harmful flavors, chemical dyes and preservatives. In addition, to make fruit ice at home is very simple.
Know the theory
What is fruit ice made of?First, we will read the label on the fragrant piece of cool bought in the store, which is asked in the mouth. And what will we see there? Concentrated juice is not the worst evil. Besides it, there is still a whole list of chemistry, and there is no doubt about its "usefulness": guar gum, sodium alginate, dextrose, flavor enhancers, carrageenan. Next are more or less safe ingredients: citric acid and identical natural dyes. Industrial preparation of fruit ice is impossible without these ingredients. All these substances and make the purchase of fruit ice so attractive. But how do they affect health? It is especially sad to think that children love this sweetness very much ...
Alternative to own production
And what happens if you make a fruitice at home? All vitamins and beneficial trace elements that are found in fresh berries and fruits, perfectly preserved. And the appearance of homemade ice can be made absolutely by anyone. Desserts, frozen in layers, look particularly impressive, and the taste of each layer will be different. Kids will appreciate this!
Proportions for home cooking
Do not learn by heart to recipe.The main thing is to understand its essence. Then it will be easy to find a replacement for those products that were not at hand, and the experiments will appeal to both adults and kids. Before you make fruit ice at home, you should know the approximate proportions of products:
Details of the fruit part
Prepare fruit ice at homecan be of almost any favorite fruits and berries. Perfect as familiar from childhood strawberries, cherries, currants, and exotic orange, tangerine, mango. Perfectly complement the fruit ice and northern berries: blackberries, cranberries, blueberries. We should also highlight the banana - it is simply created for making cold desserts.
Mother's assistants
Those who decided to make fruit ice at homeconditions, can not do without molds and chopsticks. The latter can be “accumulated” by collecting them from popsicle ice cream. And the molds can be bought ready-made or made independently. The range of ready-made molds is huge! They beckon to experiment with colors and content. But if someone was not lucky enough to meet this miracle on sale - it does not matter. Yogurt cups or even ordinary plastic cups of the right size are suitable for fruit ice.
Preparation
So, everything you need is at hand.First, dilute the gelatin in cold water for 30 minutes. We dissolve the sugar in water, heat it up to dissolve faster. Pour gelatin into it, boil. Give a little cool and combine with juice or puree, add lemon or lime juice. If desired, before pouring into the molds the basis for ice can be squeezed through cheesecloth, then the ready-made dessert will be softer. It remains only to pour into forms and give freeze.
