Buttermilch-Orange
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You know that feeling when you haven’t really done enough study and you’ve got assignments due, and then your mother and stepfather announce that they’re arriving in Berlin 3 weeks earlier than expected (yes, tonight!) and your flatmate hasn’t been around to help clean the flat and it’s May Day tomorrow so all the stores are closed and you woke up with a tight back and headache as a result of the anxiety and almost threw up from the pain?
Well, maybe you don’t know that exact feeling, but I’m going to place great faith in your ability to feel for me in this situation. So once I’d had returned to sleep away the headache, and then made a token cleaning of my flat it was time to head to the Turkish Market to buy ingredients for dinner tomorrow (quiche and salad).
So I bought food and fabric and wandered back via the Glogauer Str bridge area to look in a junk shop which is conveniently sited opposite my favourite icecream store.
Fraulein Frost have some really amazing icecream flavours – including a great Cucumber, Mint and Lemon ice (Gu-Zi-Mi) that is perfect for really hot days. It was pleasantly warm today, not hot and I’ve already had Gu-Zi-Mi on several visits – so I took the chance to try the Buttermilch-Orange eis.
I mentioned in my last icecream post about quark and ricotta based icecreams – the inclusion of non-traditional dairy usually changes the texture and adds a certain acidity to the mix. I like sweet things, but I prefer the tang or bite that comes with bittersweet chocolate, fruit-based cakes and tart apples.
So buttermilch-orange had to be tried. The orange flavour was restrained and very natural, the buttermilk gave a lovely tang and slightly changed the texture away from being creamy or crystallised, but was more smooth.
And luckily, the walk and the icecream have helped ease the crazy of the day. Thank goodness – now I’m more capable of making pastry and heading off to collect the parentals.