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How do I make that wonderful Citron Glace you find in Belgium and France?

Hi GrumpyAlembic,

I found you a recipe online:

http://www.glaces.org/glace-citron.php

You ok with the French?

W

Thank you. As my french teacher once said - French is for me a foreign language.

I will have a look and see what I can decipher.

Assuming it is a recipe for the right kind of 'glace', here's a rough translation:

Ingredients:
150ml water
zest and juice of 2 large lemons
175g powdered (icing) sugar
2 egg whites
300ml crème fraiche

Method:
In a saucepan, warm your zest, juice, water and sugar
Keep mixing well under it begins to boil, allow to simmer for 5 minutes
beat the egg whites into peaks and fold into the warm mixture
allow to cool and add the crème fraiche
mix well
enjoy

... roughly speaking, anyway.

I may have to try this

under >> until

I presume at some point before enjoying, it is supposed to go in the freezer?

Maybe?

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Wilma - thanks for the translation - it is hard to believe, but it is roughly as I had interpreted it. Many thanks - I will have a go and we can compare results.

I had an ice cream maker once - a good make and the type you freeze the bowl first, but it eventually developed a leak - the recipes didn't seem to have anything as good as this Citron Glace.

Ta GA.