After a couple of years making sorbets, especially lime and lemon sorbets, I remembered the half-and-half with lemon soda and porter I have had several times over the years. A half-and-half with soda and beer, is also known as a shandy or portergaff if made with porter. In Denmark it is called “Støvle” (boot) and was very popular in the late 70’ties and early 80’ties.
Ingredients
- 250g caster sugar
- around 150ml water
- around 250ml good strong porter
- 200ml freshly squeezed lemon juice. I normally just use 3 lemons.
- 1 egg white
Method
- Mix the sugar, water and lemon juice together in a pan and heat it up while stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Set aside to cool completely.
- Add the porter and stir a bit.
- Whip the egg white and carefully fold the egg white into the mixture, stirring well.
- Place into the ice cream machine until firm (around 30min), then put into freezer for a couple of hours.
It turned out surprisingly well and had several praises from the old friends. They also pitched a new idea… chocolate stout.
Another experiment would be to add the old secret “støvle” ingrident - Pernod. But I fear that we might end up with a to high alcohol percentage.