Sorbetto di Caffe for a Monday

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Today is a coffee Monday! Even though I have heard that drinking hot coffee in the heat of summer keeps your body cool, you may want to drink your coffee cool on a hot summer day.
The dish for today in The Basic Art of Italian Cooking Kitchen was a Sorbetto di Caffe (Coffee Sorbet). It was great as an after dinner dessert, replacing my usual cup of hot coffee.
It’s really quite easy, made with simple ingredients, no special equipment needed to make it. Before the summer is gone try this for a dessert or a cool afternoon treat! Reminds me a of a stroll through the center of Rome and taking a coffee sorbetto in one of the chic coffee bars. I can see it now, passing the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain the hot Roman sun beating down and nothing but a sorbetto di caffe will do!
Sorbetto Di Caffe
*1/4 cup of white sugar
*4 espresso size cups of espresso coffee
*1 cup water
Make 4 cups of espresso in a 4 cup of espresso and let cool.In a saucepan place 1 cup cooled coffee. Place in a freezer container or ice tray. In one hour stir mixture, and stir again in 2 hours. Then let freeze. When frozen solid it is ready to serve. Stir with a dollop of whipped cream.
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