Have you seen the raspberries at your greenmarket lately? In New York, they are at their absolute peak right now, ready to be baked into tarts, pies, and muffins, coaxed into jams, or quickly made up into an intensely flavorful sauce for your ice cream.
It’s easy as pie-in fact much, much easier. This raspberry sauce could inspire us to host our own ice cream social. We served this to our Sunday dinner guests on top of vanilla ice cream, and everybody just woofed it down. It wasn’t a fluke either. Since there wasn’t a drop of our dessert left on Sunday, I whipped up a second round to take the pictures above. You see the last picture? MMMmm.
Red Raspberry Sauce
*2 pints of fresh raspberries (about 2 cups)
*2 T. lemon juice (about 1/2 of a medium lemon)
*1/4 c. honey or 2 T. agave
Wash and prepare your raspberries, discarding any bad berries or stems. Place the berries into a small saucepan and add the lemon juice. Have your mini-chef give them a special stir with a wooden spoon and smoosh them up a little bit.
Big Person: Move to the stovetop and cook over medium heat till boiling. Allow the sauce to continue to boil and add in your honey or agave. Smash the warm berries with the back of your spoon. Keep cooking and stirring until you have your desired thickness, about 5 minutes.
Remove from the heat. Allow to cool to room temperature first, and then chill it your fridge.
17/07/2009 at 12:47 pm Permalink
Laura, this looks delicious! And it's easy enough that even I might be able to make it.
Thanks for posting this perfect summer treat.
17/07/2009 at 1:18 pm Permalink
well, i bet laura likes it, too. giggle. i'm cate. nice to meet you, mrs mama.
17/07/2009 at 2:36 pm Permalink
Our raspberries are just starting to show up at the market. We buy an expensive raspberry sauce (local company Fran's – do you know it?); maybe we'll make some this month… thanks for the recipe!
17/07/2009 at 6:30 pm Permalink
Looks delish!
17/07/2009 at 9:46 pm Permalink
Perfect for a nice scone right about now.
18/07/2009 at 3:13 am Permalink
mmm so yummy.. raspberries are my favorite!
Looks like the Summer is finally here. Stay cool.
Have a great weekend! ox
18/07/2009 at 7:48 pm Permalink
delish!! and i loved your video in the last post!
19/07/2009 at 2:05 pm Permalink
Beautiful sauce! Lemon is so good with berries. Now, I want some ice cream!
20/07/2009 at 10:40 am Permalink
Thanks for visiting my site. This is a beautiful blog. Love the recipe!
20/07/2009 at 9:27 pm Permalink
That does sound super easy! Love these pictures! Perfect for your book… hint hint!
27/07/2009 at 4:28 pm Permalink
This looks so good! I think it would taste incredible on chocolate ice cream…I'll have to give it a try!