We like to make and taste things at Club Wild. Mostly we use what we can find growing seasonally in the school garden or round and about in the orchard and hedgerows, but what could we find that grows at this time in the season?
Sarah-Jane told us that at this time of year she always thinks of citrus fruits, making marmalade and of blood oranges. Blood oranges are only available for us to buy in our supermarkets for a very short period between late January and March so we decided to try using them to make a simple blood orange ice sorbet.
First we cut the oranges in half, some of the colours were amazing. The red pigments that we could see are the same anthocyanins that are found in red autumn leaves. We squeezed the juice from the oranges and saved all the pips to plant later. Sarah-Jane boiled some sugar and water and then added it to our juice. We gave it a quick stir and then popped it in the freezer. In the morning, mashed together, our beautiful pink sorbet was ready. Gillon thought it was delicious and Huriyah gave it a definite thumbs up. Even though it was so cold outside, it’s never too cold for our sweet and refreshing blood orange sorbet 😊.
