Philips HR2305 manual Sauces, You can prepare a fruit puree in the following manner

•Ice cream can also be decorated with, for example, chocolate leaves, grated chocolate, nougat, bonbons, shredded coconut or chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, slivered almonds, pistachio nuts).

•Ice cream will look even more festive if you decorate it with one or more wafers, biscuits, macaroons or wafer rolls.

5 Sauces

Sauces and syrup add a nice touch to ice cream. There are many different varieties: sweet sauces, fruit sauces and fruit syrup.

Many types of ready-to-use sauces are obtainable from your local supermarket. However, just as with the ice cream, home- made sauces are tastier. Sauces can easily be prepared a few days in advance and stored in the refrigerator or freezer.

5.0.1 Hot sauces

If you want to serve a hot sauce, heat it up slowly. It is best to chill the ice cream thoroughly in the freezer before you pour the hot sauce over the top.

The sauces described below can also be served cold. Serve the hot sauce either separately as an

accompaniment to the ice cream, or pour it over the ice cream just before serving.

5.0.2 Cherry sauce

Put the juice of one tin of stoned cherries in a pan, together with the grated peel of one orange and one lemon. Let the mixture simmer over a low heat for 10 minutes. Strain the mixture. Pour half a tablespoon of lemon juice and one teaspoon of orange juice through a sieve into

a bowl and mix one teaspoon of corn flour or potato flour with the juice. Pour this mixture into the hot cherry juice, while stirring constantly. Let the mixture boil for 1 minute. Add sugar to taste and a tablespoon of kirsch (cherry brandy), if desired. Add the cherries to the sauce just before serving.

5.0.3 Chocolate sauce

Break or cut 125g (4.5oz) plain chocolate into pieces. Melt it bain-marie in a bowl over 200ml (6.6fl.oz) of boiling water. Let the molten chocolate simmer for 20 minutes.

Add 1.5 teaspoon vanilla sugar, 2 tablespoons whipping cream and a knob of butter. Stir the sauce until smooth. Pour the hot sauce over the ice cream just before serving.

You can prepare this sauce in advance and store it in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator for a few days. Heat the sauce over lightly simmering water before serving.

5.0.4 Cold fruit sauce

This recipe is for fresh fruit, but you can also use frozen fruit or fruit from a tin or jar.

If you use fresh fruit, add sugar at a ratio of

50-75g (2-3oz) sugar to 200g (7oz) of fruit.The quantity of sugar depends on the type of fruit that is used.

Push the fruit through a nylon sieve to remove the pips. Cool the fruit sauce before serving. Do not refreeze fruit sauces made from frozen fruit. You can, however, freeze fruit sauces made from fresh fruit.

5.0.5 Fruit puree

You can prepare a fruit puree in the following manner:

•Wash fresh fruit and remove the pips or stones (some fruits have to be peeled first).

•Add sugar to taste and cook the fruit until soft.

•Put the puree in a sieve or strainer to remove pips, if any.

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You can also make the puree from tinned or jarred fruit. In that case, use as little of the fruit juice as possible and add no or very little sugar.

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