The Homestead: Strawberry and Blueberry Sorbet

It's going to be warm and sunny today! Let's make a sorbet for dessert!
How about strawberry and blueberry sorbet? I was going to make typical strawberry shortcake but.... I'm tired of the same old thing.

Time for something different for me. Plus I had strawberries, lemon, and blueberries and just a bit of cream in the house.

Here's the recipe:
1 clamshell of strawberries (hulled)
1 clamshell of blueberries
Juice of one lemon
1 cup simple sugar syrup
(this is equal parts sugar and water brought to a boil to dissolve and cooled)
1/4 cup cream (optional)
That's IT!

Put the berries in a food processor, process, then add the simple syrup. Process just a bit more and then add the cream.
Put all this in your ice cream/sorbet device. I have a very simple Donvier hand crank ice cream maker. You put the bowl in the freezer until the interior is frozen, put your concoction in the bowl, crank until frozen. Very simple. Takes about 30 min from start to finish.

This really only creates a "soft serve" sorbet. You can serve right away but it' pretty soft. Once it's done take it out of the device and put the sorbet in a container to put in your freezer to harden.
After about 2 hours it ready to serve by scooping out of the freezer dish.

YUM and very nice on a hot day! See my pics below.