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Wine-flavored Italian ice
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granita
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Granita (; in Italian also granita siciliana ) is a semi-frozen dessert made from sugar, water and various flavorings. Originally from Sicily , it is available all over Italy in somewhat different forms. It is related to sorbet and Italian ice ; however, ...
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n. A dessert consisting of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice.
Usage examples of granita.
Though once I pursued intensity as the ultimate goal of granitas, I have found that added water increases the crunchiness of the ice crystals and gives you another, more panoramic, vantage point on the flavorlike stepping back from a painting.
It was perfect, not because of the perfection of his ingredientsthese are easy to duplicate herebut because of his fifty-year-old broken-down Carpigiani gelato machine, which with its battered blade and erratic temperature produces the perfect granita texture: tiny, regular, moist, and highly flavored crystals of ice.
First, she had opened the jug of frozen orange juice and used a small spoon to chip away at the ice until she had a large heap of juice shavings, which she arranged into tiny piles on each plate to make orange granita, a cold and delicious concoction that is often served at fancy dinner parties and masked balls.