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Prep Time: 180 Minutes Cook Time: 3 Minutes |
Ready In: 183 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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This recipe is featured in Martha Stewart's Menus for Entertaining. Ingredients:
3 cups water |
1 cup sugar |
10 sprigs lemon balm |
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice |
2 fresh lemon rind, finely grated |
1/4 cup lemon-flavored vodka |
10 whole lemons (for shells) |
almond extract |
Directions:
1. In a heavy saucepan, bring the water, sugar, and 5 sprigs of the lemon balm to a boil over medium-high heat until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Discard the lemon balm and cool the syrup over a bowl of ice water until cold.
3. Whisk together the syrup, lemon juice, lemon rind, and vodka in a metal bowl and place in the freezer.
4. Whisk the mixture every 30 minutes until frozen, about 2-3 hours .
5. Remove any ink on the lemons by rubbing with almond extract.
6. Cut 1/4 from the stem of each lemon.
7. Using a grapefruit knife, cut between the pulp and the pith, the remove the pulp with a grapefruit spoon, scraping the shell clean.
8. Using a teaspoon, mound each lemon with granita.
9. Keep in the freezer until they are ready to serve.
10. Remove from the freezer, garnish each with half a sprig of lemon balm, and serve immediately.
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