Buy very ripe melons with a sweet fragrance that you can smell from a distance.
Recipe information
Yield
serves 6
Ingredients
2 medium melons
Juice of 1 lemon
3/4 cup sugar, or to taste
1/2–1 tablespoon orange-blossom water, to taste
Preparation
Cut open the melons. Peel and remove the seeds. Cut the flesh into pieces and blend in the food processor—with the lemon juice, sugar, and orange-blossom water—to a liquid pulp. You should have about 6 cups. The amount of sugar depends on how sweet the melons are. Continue following the “basic method” (page 423).
