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JustMe
07-07-2005, 02:24 PM
I found these in a magazine that my husband bought for me. It's called Sunset magazine. Now the recipes in here are not raw, but they had some recipes that were for popcicles using fresh fruit. these could easily be turned to a raw recipe by substituting a raw sweetener. they call for sugar. I haven't tried any of these yet so if you do, let us know!

After blending the ingredients, you will pour into 6-8 juice bar molds, attach covers firmly and insert sticks-freeze up to 3 hours.

Blackberry-Cardamom:In a blender, whirl 3-1/2 cups of rinsed, drained blackberries until smooth. push through a fine strainer into a 1-quart glass measure; discard seeds. add 1/2 cup of apple juice, 2-4 tablespoons of sugar to taste and 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom to puree; stir until sugar is dissolved.

Peach-Almond: In a blender, whirl 3 cups of sliced peeled RIPE peaches, 3/4 cup of peach nectar, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar to taste, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and 1/8 teaspoon of almond extract (to make raw you could probably just grind some almonds with the peaches, no?).

Strawberry-Cream: In blender, whirl 2 cups rinsed, hulled strawbetties until smooth. push thru a fine strainer into a 1-quart glass measure; discard seeds. return berry puree to blender and whirl in 1/2 cup of light sour cream (maybe substitute a nut milk??), 2-3 tablespoons of sugar to taste and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice until smooth.

Mango-Coconut: IN a blender, whirl 1-1/4 cups of mango chunks (about 1 inch from 1 lb. of fruit), 3/4 cup canned coconut milk (i think you can juice a coconut or just add the juice and some of the meat in??), 1-2 tablespoons sugar to taste, and 1 tablespoon lime juice until smooth.

Raspberry-Orange: In a blender, whirl 3 cups rinsed, drained raspberries until smooth. push thru a fine strainer into a 1-quart glass measure; discard seeds. add 2/3 cup orange juice and 3-4 tablespoons sugar to taste to berry puree. stir well.

Enjoy!

Revvell
07-07-2005, 02:50 PM
.... and eliminate the sugar and use agave nectar instead. The lil fairy can tell you the conversion. *giggles and runs out quickly* :p

Revvell

Rawkinlocs
07-07-2005, 03:01 PM
Those sound great! My kids have been making slushies/icees.

First, in a blender put desired fruit or juice (we used freshly juiced oranges, strawberries, blueberries, lemon, pineapple, or any combination of those) and blend WELL until it's nice and pureed.

Then add ice...LOTS of ice, probably double or triple the amount of liquid in the blender. Then we pulse the ice and keep checking it and stirring things around until it looks like the icee/slushy things you get from the mini-marts.

If need be/fruit isn't sweet enough, then add a little sweetener to taste such as agave. In fact, taste the fruit BEFORE adding the ice and if need be, add sweetener, maybe even dates and then the ice.

My kids beg for them!

JustMe
07-07-2005, 05:16 PM
great idea cherie!!

i just thought too of an idea for people with a champion juicer that if they don't a popscicle per say, pour the mixtures into ice cube trays and once solid, run thru the champion!

VeganVixen
07-07-2005, 06:39 PM
.... and eliminate the sugar and use agave nectar instead. The lil fairy can tell you the conversion. *giggles and runs out quickly* :p

Revvell


Eeeerrrrrrrrr :rolleyes: , :p

VeganVixen
07-07-2005, 06:40 PM
you might also try a bitter watermelon drink ,by adding lemon juice(to taste ) to frozen watermelon?

Live Free
07-09-2005, 09:57 AM
My husband made a strawberry slushie for my daughter last week. He did it with the crushed ice from the ice maker on the fridge.

It came out great.


Teresa