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the dessert that can't decide if it's ice cream or a fruit
means A frozen dessert made from fruit juice or puree with a little milk or cream, lighter than ice cream but richer than sorbet.
from From Turkish 'şerbet' and Persian 'sharbat,' meaning a sweetened drink — itself drawn from the Arabic root 'shariba,' to drink. The same Arabic root gives us 'syrup' and 'shrub' (the old fruit cordial), so sherbet's distant cousins are all things you once sipped rather than spooned. The chilled fruit drink traveled west and eventually froze solid into the dessert we know today.
- vs sorbet
- Sherbet has dairy, sorbet doesn't, sherbert isn't real
- persian roots
- Name traces to Arabic sharba, meaning a drink
- original form
- Began as a cool sweetened Middle Eastern beverage
- butterfat rule
- US law caps it at 2 percent milkfat
- fizzy cousin
- British sherbet is a fizzing sour powder candy
orange sherbet — frozen dessert made with citrus juice, sugar, and water, popular since the 1920s in america
rainbow sherbet — multicolored frozen treat combining orange, lemon, and lime flavors, iconic ice cream truck staple
italian water ice — sherbet-like frozen dessert originating in italy, served in philadelphia and the northeast us