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Macerated Scottish berries with mascarpone sorbet

Prep time over 2 hours
Cook time over 2 hours
Serves 4
Dietary Vegetarian
From Saturday Kitchen

Method


  1. Dissolve the caster sugar and water together, bring to the boil until slightly reduced and cool. Add the orange juice.

  2. Whisk the syrup into the mascarpone. Sieve and churn in an ice cream machine. If making by hand put into a freezer-proof box and stir/whisk every 30mins for about 1½ hours.

  3. Pick through all the berries, hull the strawberries and red and white currants. Place the berries in a large bowl and douse with Cointreau. Leave covered with cling film to macerate for 1-1½ hours.

  4. To serve, simply ladle out the berries into four chilled bowls. Scoop the sorbet and place into the centre of the bowls. You can serve a biscuit with this dish - for example, cantuccini or brandy snaps. Garnish with a sprig of mint and icing sugar. Serve immediately.

Ingredients

  • 4 handfuls of strawberries (Scottish if possible)
  • 4 handfuls of raspberries (Scottish if possible)
  • 2 handfuls of tayberries (Scottish if possible)
  • 1 small punnet of redcurrants (Scottish if possible)
  • 1 small punnet of white currants (Scottish if possible)
  • a good dousing of Cointreau
  • 270g/9½oz caster sugar
  • 350ml/12fl oz cold water
  • 2 tbsp fresh orange juice
  • 250g/9oz mascarpone cheese
  • 3 sprigs of mint
  • dusting of icing sugar

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