Refreshing Lime Sherbet Recipe

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One spoonful of the cool, fresh-tasting and delicious treat and you'll never eat store-bought lime sherbet again! It's terrific following a heavy meal, on a hot summer day or anytime your taste buds are bored.

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Refreshing Lime Sherbet Recipe

Prep: 15 min. Process: 20 min./batch + freezing

Yield: 24 Servings

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Ingredients

4-1/4 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups lime juice
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons grated lime peel
7-1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 drop green food coloring, optional

Directions

In a bowl, combine sugar, lime juice, lemon juice and lime peel until well blended. Gradually stir in milk, buttermilk and food coloring if desired; mix well. Pour into the cylinder of an ice cream freezer and freeze according to manufacturer's directions. Remove from the freezer 10 minutes before serving. Yield: about 2-1/2 quarts.

Editor's Note: Recipe may need to be frozen in two batches.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1/2 cup) equals 191 calories, 3 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 11 mg cholesterol, 43 mg sodium, 41 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 3 g protein.

Originally published as Refreshing Lime Sherbet in Taste of Home December/January 2000, p29