Patty's Pinot Closet
Serves 8
| Ingredients: | ||
| 2 | cups | water |
| 1 | cup | sugar |
| 2 | cups | black currants |
| 1 | cup | young black currant leaves (optional) |
| juice of | 6 | lemons |
| 1/4 | cup | Cassis (black currant liquor) |
Serve with: Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Hazelnut Pirouettes
Combine water and sugar and boil the syrup for 5 minutes. Add black currants and black currant leaves and cook the syrup for a minute or two. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for 2 hours. Strain the syrup and stir in the lemon juice and Cassis. Freeze the mixture in the freezer.