Free delivery across Accra on two tubs or more
Sorbets · Churned in Osu
Sobolo sorbet
Hibiscus, ginger and pineapple, churned without a drop of cream.
It is the flavour we opened with and the one that goes first every Saturday. Sharp at the front from the hibiscus, sweet at the back from the pineapple, and cold in a way cream never quite manages. There is no dairy in it at all, though almost nobody orders it for that reason.
GH¢ 85
500 ml tub
Take a tub home
Size
500 ml tub
Price
GH¢ 85
Keeps
Three weeks at minus eighteen
Packed in a cool box with dry ice and driven out the same afternoon anywhere in Accra. Two tubs or more and the delivery is on us.
Or ring 030 279 1140 and we will put one on the van.
What is actually in it
Dried hibiscus calyces from Bolgatanga, pineapple juice, fresh ginger, cane sugar, water and a squeeze of lime. That is the entire list.
No milk, no egg, no stabiliser and no colouring. The colour is what hibiscus does on its own.
Off the side of the tub
Per 100 ml, as sold.
Energy
118 kcal
Sugars
26 g
Fat
0 g
Protein
0.3 g
Salt
0.02 g
How it reaches you
Every order leaves the shop in a cool box packed with dry ice, and the van covers Accra the same afternoon if the order is in before three. Kumasi has its own counter in Adum, so nothing has to travel that far.
If it reaches you soft, ring us the same day and the next one is free. It has happened four times and we have never argued about it.
How this one happens
Forty eight hours, start to tub
Every flavour on the site has a version of this. We are only writing it out for the sorbet because it is the one people ask about.
01
It starts in Bolgatanga
The calyces are dried in the north and come down on the Thursday lorry. We buy a season at a time from two families and we pay them on the day, which is the only part of this anybody has ever thanked us for.
02
Steeped cold, never boiled
Boiling sobolo makes it dark and flat. Ours sits cold with the ginger and the pineapple for fourteen hours instead, and that is the whole reason the colour survives the freezer.
03
In the tub by seven
Churned at five in Osu, sealed by half past six, on the van before the traffic builds on the Ring Road. Nothing that leaves this kitchen has been frozen twice.
People who bought it
“I hid a tub of the sobolo behind the frozen tilapia and my sister found it in four days. I need a better hiding place.”
Afia Owusu
Labone
“The van reached my office at four on a Friday. Nobody in that building did any more work, and I am the one who ordered it.”
Kwabena Asare
Dansoman
“I do not eat dairy and I had made my peace with that. Then somebody handed me the sobolo and I had to make a different sort of peace.”
Naa Adjeley Quartey
Teshie
“I have been eating ice cream in Accra since 1984. This is the first one that tastes like somebody in Accra made it.”
Yaw Boateng
Ridge
“They opened in Adum and my Saturdays have been ruined in the nicest possible way. Two scoops, walk to the market, repeat.”
Selina Amankwah
Adum, Kumasi
What people add
Goes well beside it
The three that leave the counter with a tub of the sorbet more often than not. One more sharp thing, one for the house, and one to frighten a visitor with.
