On Saturday, my buddy and I tried to have a little road trip
to Ilkley lido to make the most of the rare outdoor swimming pool friendly
weather we've been having. Alas, we got there to find out they'd stopped
letting people in at 12.30 as it was so busy (it was 12.35 when we arrived...).
Instead we went for a wander and an ice cream whilst we formed a back up plan
to keep us entertained for the afternoon.
So we hopped back into Betty, my awesome new car, and drove
to the fruit picking farm in Horsforth (with only a slight detour thanks to the
satnav thinking that the farm was down a residential street in the middle of a
housing estate...). All that was left in
the fields was raspberries as the strawberry season had just finished so we set
off on our merry little way to the raspberry fields. The man at the stand told
us that the raspberries were becoming harder to find but that there should
still be plenty for us to fill our basket with. He was right, but we did have
to keep disappearing into the depths of the bushes and branches to find
anything worth picking- hard work when the weather was so crazily hot! We were
very proud of ourselves when our dedication finally paid off and we wandered
back to the man with a basket full of yummy looking berries. There's just
something far more satisfying about picking your own fruit than pulling it off
a shelf at the supermarket, and they definitely taste better too!
On Sunday, I realised I had a humongous box full of raspberries
sat in my fridge as we'd not managed to make a real dent in them yesterday.
Worried that they were going to quickly go past their best, I sarted plotting
ways I could make something exciting and raspberry based. I decided to experiment with ice lollies as
it was far too warm to be slaving over a hot oven. With no recipe in front of
me I tried to turn my lovingly picked fruit into tasty lollies. And actually,
they seem to have worked pretty bloomin' well! And being the kind-hearted soul
that I am, I'm going to share my secret recipe so that you have an excuse to go
and pick your own fruit too!
Raspberry Lemonade Lollies
Ingredients:
250g raspberries
juice of one lemon
1-2 tsp honey
1tsp caster sugar
about 100ml lemonade
To make:
Weigh out your raspberries and mash them together until it
forms a liquid.
Seive the smushed up raspberries to separate the juice from the
seeds (I then added some of the seeds to the bowl to make the lollies seem a
bit more 'natural' without it being totally overrun with seeds but that's just
personal preference).
Squeeze the lemon juice into the bowl of raspberry juice,
add the sugar and honey and mix together well.
Pour the mixture into ice lolly moulds (I got mine super
cheap in Primark!) so that they're about two-thirds full then top up each mould
with lemonade.
Put in the freezer until frozen then sit out in the sunshine
and enjoy :)
If anybody has any more summery ice lolly recipes then let
me know- I'd love to try out more ideas!
This brings back so many great memories!
ReplyDeleteI used to do it when I was a child during summertime :)