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Granité of Tamarind and Banana

Ingredients:

I've got a cool granité recipe for you.
Put a cup of water in a large measuring cup. Add enough peeled tamarind pulp* to bring the volume up by one third. Soak for two hours. Give it a squeeze once or twice during the soaking period. Rub the tamarind pulp through a sieve into a bowl until only seed and fibre remains.
Mash a large ripe banana, two if they're small, into the result. Mix a cup of sugar with a cup of boiling water, bring to the boil and cook for one minute. Cool and add a little at a time to the banana mixture until you have adjusted the sweetness against the acidity to your taste. Add a few drops of rum.
Put the mixture into the freezer until it begins to set around the edges, and mix it again, with a whip or fork. Do this again, at least twice (but as many times as you've the patience for will only improve the texture) prior to letting it finally set, either in its bowl or in the final serving configuration.

Notes:

*You can buy tamarind, peeled, in a block in Asian food stores, among others. Keep it wrapped in waxed paper and it will hold for weeks in the refrigerator.

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