EZ Recipes for the Cooking Impared #2 Syllabub

Syllabub (Sort of…)

If you cook because you have to, or need to, and feel like cookbooks were written in some strange code, designed to baffle and intimidate, this is my attempt to hubhelp…

First, the measurements are all very approximate, which means that, as you cook, taste, to see if it has remained edible. Trial and error (even the best cooks make mistakes), works, and after a couple of tries you should have a sense of what works for you.

So lets try a dessert…

You will need:

A) Food…

1) Fruit, fresh or frozen (do not use if brown or furry)

2) Cream (thick whipping is best – and see note above)

Or…

3) Ice Cream (Vanilla is best, but experiment...)

4) White wine (sweet is best – again experiment…)

5) Ice, crushed is best

B) Stuff to make food in…

1) Blender

2) Smaller containers (wine glasses are great)

C) Cooking Equipment

1) Blender

2) Fridge

D) Instructions…

1) Put fruit (minus icky parts) into blender (about halfway)

2) Add cream (about an inch or two)

3) Add ice (about an inch or two)

4) Add wine (about an inch or two - sampling is actively encouraged)

5) PUT LID ON BLENDER

6) Check lid is tight, no really, check it, you’ll thank me later…

7) Turn on and blend the heck out of it

8) Perfect consistency is thick, but pour-able. If a bit thick you will need additional implement, like spoon…

9) Put mix into smaller containers, put in fridge to chill, or just go for it…

E) Cooking part…

1) That would be the blending part…

2) And the putting it in the fridge part…

F) Could do’s…

1) Ice Cream instead of Ice and Cream (start with vanilla, experiment later)

2) Liqueurs instead of wine (can make it very flavorful)

3) Try different fruits and combinations

4) Try frozen fruit mixes (don’t need the ice with this)

Eat and enjoy. If it’s not quite how you would like it, play with the ingredients until you have something you have invented, and like. 

(“Real” Syllabub is a simple combination of cream, fruit and wine or sherry. It is a very refreshing. Sweet and alcoholic, how could it fail…)