When summer heats up, fruit and frozen treats beckon our taste buds. They are cool and thirst-quenching when it's just too hot to eat anything else.
Sherbet is just the right combination of both: fruity and light.
The dessert originated as a Middle Eastern drink called charbet, made of sweetened fruit juice and water, according to the Epicurious food Web site (http://food.epicurious.com/). Modern sherbet mixes frozen, sweetened fruit juice (or even wine) and water. Some sherbet makers add milk, egg whites or gelatin.
In French, sherbet is sorbet, in Italian, it's sorbetto. However, sorbet doesn't …
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