Re: Popsicles recipes

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Can I make popsicles out of apple cider?Please give me some recipes on popsiclesGenerally, popsicles are just frozen juice, so the cider should be fine. Pour Dieu, pour terre,Alyssa 15UC April 2008, diagnosed Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)No meds =)

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Can I make popsicles out of apple cider?Please give me some recipes on popsiclesGenerally, popsicles are just frozen juice, so the cider should be fine. Pour Dieu, pour terre,Alyssa 15UC April 2008, diagnosed Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)No meds =)

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Hi ,

Sure, I will try to be more exact about how I make them.

OK, I'm using the blender. If I am making up some " just for

now " , I will use a pint canning jar instead of the big glass jar for

my blender. If I'm making a batch for popsicles I use the big

jar.

It takes several steps to do it my way and get everything

well-blended. My efforts in this line remind me of Marilyn's list

of what she tried on making the breads. What you are aiming for is

not to add too much liquid but you need enough to get things to blend. At

first I was adding the frozen berries first. This is the hard way. I had

to stop and scrape down the sides, maybe add more juice. Sometimes it

gets too thin. The reason I say " too thin " is that if it

comes out very thick and puddingish, it is a creamier " ice

cream " sort of thing. Don't give up if you can't have berries,

there are other things to use, and I will say that the berry seeds (which

don't seem to bother me) seem to get smaller and harder this way. I had

hoped they'd sort of disappear!

Anyhow, OK, I gave up on berries first and went to mango or

peach/nectarine first. Peel in either case. These are soft

and will pretty much blend by themselves. After this I will add

berries if I'm using them. It's much easier to blend them in this

way. Probably use a bit of juice.

I would say quantities so far are:

one mango or one large or two small peaches/nectarines, and a cup of

berries.

maybe 2-3 tablespoons of legal juice

OK, now open the blender again and add a sliced banana. Or two if

they are small.

Now really blend it a bit more than you think it needs to be, just to get

it all blended together. By this I mean, do it longer because I think it

whips more air into the mixture, though I could be wrong.

Now put into the popsicle molds if you have them. A friend of mine says

she likes the smallest paper cups because they are easy to just tear the

paper off as you are eating them and I'm going to try this. I put

some extra in a square freezer container a time or two and it's a bigger

area, even if only about an inch thick, and I have to take my largest,

sharpest knife and saw off a piece or two to eat. The smaller molds

of one or another kind are really better.

I think you can use use more bananas and some juice if that's all you've

got. Or just peaches or whatever. But the banana is always nice in

these things because it's very creamy and filling.

Does this help? I can go make some and measure what I use better if

that would be a help.

Could we get an exact way on how to make these please?

Re:Popsicles recipes

I made quite a lot of successful popsicles this summer. I used grape

juice but cider should work as well. My general " recipe "

was a

handful of frozen berries or peach or mango, a banana, and enough of

the juice to let the blender work. I have some of those popsicle

molds and they work well. I think you could use any fruit that works

for you. I've also made popsicles in the past just with juice and

they freeze harder than those with the fruit in them; in other words,

you'll have to nibble on the popsicle slower until it starts melting

a little bit.