lemon sorbet with snowy

'tis the silly season once again... and it is time for secret santa at work... this year, secret santa gave me some kitchen gadget which i already have at home (electric juicer)... so i ventured to myer yesterday, armed with my unopened pressie and tried my lucky for a refund / exchange...

"sorry love, no receipt, no exchange. why don't you have the receipt?"
"it was a present. i want to exhange it, add more money to buy an icecream maker - over there (pointing)."
"oh... let me ask the manager, i'll have to get his approval, hold on."

... so several ching chings at the till and $20 bucks later... i got my new icecream maker - snowy

"keep this receipt love. we don't do exchange without receipt anymore."

cool... so i got want i wanted for $20 instead for $49.95 - bargain! yes, it is probably the cheapest icecream maker in the market, but it uses exactly the same mechanism as the dearer krups ($99) machine - they are both using the "bowl in the freezer for 20+ hours method" (instead of a having self contained compressor - these machine retails for $250+ bucks)...

so did it work? sort of... there is why and how...

i started off with a lemon gelato recipe included in the manual. it called for (but i used):
1 cup water (2 cups)
220g castor sugar (420g)
1/3 cup lemon zest (2/3 cup)
2/3 cup lemon juice, strained (1 cup)
2/3 cup thickened cream (600mL)
the first 4 ingredients were cooked together in a saucepan for 2min (boiling), then rested overnight in fridge to keep cool
then just b4 pouring the content into snowy, the lemon juice mix was strained & whipped with cream

i had 4 lemons, so i thought i would make 2 batches of gelato... but it turned out to be not v much once i poured in snowy...

in order to keep snowy cool for the 40min+ of churning, i added ice and salt around it so it'll be below freezing...

here the lemon cream mixture is poured into a running snowy

here is snowy in action...

cos my initial lemon cream has been whipped and out of the cold for too long... it took snowy a good 40 min to make some kind of slush out of the lemon cream... at the end, i had to retire snowy and let the "express freeze" function of the fridge to bring the icecream home...
and it looked pretty good after 4-5 hours...

... eaten with stewed lemon zest... yum

one word of warning though... the portions i used was wrong - cos the gelato became v v sweet... so next time i'll have to cut the sugar and cut the total amount of ingredients - not to overwork snowy...