Sherbert/Sherbet/Sorbet

[Insider]

raspberry or peach?

[HornBuckler]

1. Ice Cream Please

Or Italian Ice :)

[zauberflote]

2. Schubert

Die Winterreise, if you please.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. The Quintet in c...

The one with 2 celli...:nopity:

[Nikia]

3. Is Sorbet different from sherbert?

I've had sorbet at a couple of high class restaurants between courses. It seemed different from the dessert variety. That could just be their restaurant though. I'd like to think that I'm well versed in food, but I am not sure about this one.

[Insider]

4. from dictionary.com

Word History: Although the word sherbet has been in the English language for several centuries (it was first recorded in 1603), it has not always referred to what one normally thinks of as sherbet. Sherbet came into English from Ottoman Turkish sherbet or Persian sharbat, both going back to Arabic arba, “drink.” The Turkish and Persian words referred to a beverage of sweetened, diluted fruit juice that was popular in the Middle East and imitated in Europe. In Europe sherbet eventually came to refer to a carbonated drink. Because the original Middle Eastern drink contained fruit and was often cooled with snow, sherbet was applied to a frozen dessert (first recorded in 1891). It is distinguished slightly from sorbet, which can also mean “a fruit-flavored ice served between courses of a meal.” Sorbet (first recorded in English in 1585) goes back through French (sorbet) and then Italian (sorbetto) to the same Turkish sherbet that gave us sherbet.

i don't know much about food, except to chew & swallow :shrug: