Strawberry Rose Popsicle Type Treats (Fruit Pops)

Strawberry Rose Popsicle Type Treats (Fruit Pops)

Yesterday was the day of the great wallow. Hiding in a dark basement on a sunny day looking through old photos and reveling in sad. Most days I know I’ve got it pretty good, most days I am thankful, thankful for so many things including being blessed with an amazing mother. You know, the nurturing sort who loved me unconditionally, the maker of hot lemon honey toddies when I was sick, the praiser of my Bloody Marys’ once I was grown, the first person I called when there was good news or when there was bad, the one who if the roles were switched would have known just what to say if yesterday was Dad’s birthday and he was gone. And that is the secret shame of the wallow, no matter how much I love my father and I know he loves me, he was not there for me like mother, he forgets other people’s birthdays, he forgets to say thank you, he doesn’t always wash his hands and leaves a trail of red fingerprints across the kitchen after cleaning strawberries, and he is here alive and well and my mother is not. And two years later that still sometimes makes me cry but I’m afraid to talk about it because even though I know that grief is not a competition I also know that my loss and my life would get its ass kicked in a ‘stuff to feel sorry for yourself about’ bout. Today I’ll be thankful for strawberries and sunshine and my amazing man and my snorty shuffling old dad if you’ll forgive me yesterday where I ate cinnamon toast for breakfast (mom always had a jar of pre-mixed cinnamon and sugar on the table) and binge watched Murder She Wrote because I want to be Jessica Fletcher when I grow up (sans the body count) and ate left over chocolate sorbet and strawberry rose popsicles.

This is my Mom in 1949. She is eating a peach.

Oh yes, the fruit pops/ice pops/popsicles. You’re here for Strawberry Rose Popsicles not my pity party. But it’s a pity party with popsicles ;).

Strawberries and Roses are related. Relations that get along well enough they have a standing lunch date at my house. Macerated strawberries with rose vanilla whipped cream- simple springtime perfection. But it’ll be hovering around ninety degrees her all this week, it is time to break out the frozen treats. I do not have ice pop molds or popsicle sticks. I do have mini muffin tins and toothpicks. This worked out just fine and as I discovered last year when I made the Cardamom Vanilla Popsicles the baking liners not only give a visually pleasing texture they also work as drip catchers and a place to rest your popsicle.

Strawberry Rose Popsicle Type Treats (Fruit Pops)

Any ripe and flavorful strawberry will work here but the slightly battered just on the edge of over ripe work best.

This recipe can be easily doubled or tripled or halved. I had a bit of the unfrozen sauce on my yogurt and then froze the rest.

ingredients

• 1 cup ripe strawberries, quartered
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• ½ tsp. fresh lemon juice
• ¼-1 tsp. rosewater (I’ve noticed that rosewater varies in both intensity and the quality of the perfume, so I like to start with a small amount and then slowly add more until the rose scent and flavor is there but not overpowering the more subdued strawberry)

directions

1. Combine all ingredients and allow to macerate for thirty minutes to an hour at room temperature or over night (covered) in the refrigerator
2. Prepare your freeze pop molds
3. Smash the now juicy strawberry mixture with a fork until it forms a scoopable slush, leaving enough berry bits for some texture.
4. Scoop into molds (my mixture was thick enough I could insert the toothpicks immediately and have them stand up) and freeze.

Strawberry Rose Popsicle Type Treats (Fruit Pops)

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Ingredients

  

• 1 cup ripe strawberries quartered
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• ½ tsp. fresh lemon juice
• ¼-1 tsp. rosewater I’ve noticed that rosewater varies in both intensity and the quality of the perfume, so I like to start with a small amount and then slowly add more until the rose scent and flavor is there but not overpowering the more subdued strawberry

Instructions

 

• Combine all ingredients and allow to macerate for thirty minutes to an hour at room temperature or over night (covered) in the refrigerator
• Prepare your freeze pop molds
• Smash the now juicy strawberry mixture with a fork until it forms a scoopable slush, leaving enough berry bits for some texture.
• Scoop into molds (my mixture was thick enough I could insert the toothpicks immediately and have them stand up) and freeze.

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