Recipes With Strawberries

Strawberry Dessert

Strawberries contain resveratrol, which research has shown to contain many health benefits. Include them into your diet whenever you can.

Ingredients

250g hulled strawberries

2 tablespoons icing sugar

1 cup cream

Instructions

Mash the strawberries with the icing sugar until soft and pulpy. Whip the cream until soft peaks form. Stir the cream into the fruit mixture. Taste and add a little extra fruit if desired. Place into glasses and chill. Serve with wafers.

You may use any fruit for this dessert, however using half strawberries and raspberries gives you the health benefits of resveratrol.

Strawberry or Raspberry Jam

Ingredients

1,5kg of either strawberries or raspberries (hulled)

1,25 kg sugar

1/3 cup lemon juice

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 140C or 275F

Place the sugar in an ovenproof dish and warm for ten minutes. Place clean jam jars in the oven to warm also. Put a saucer into the freezer to chill.

Place the strawberries, lemon juice, warm sugar and a half cup of water into a large saucepan. Stir over low heat until the sugar had dissolved. Increase the heat and simmer gently for twenty minutes, stirring frequently, and skim off any scum that rises to the surface.

Remove from the heat. Drop one teaspoon of jam on the chilled saucer and return to the freezer for a minute. If the jam forms a skin and wrinkles when pushed with a fingertip, it has reached setting point. Remove from the heat and let stand for fifteen minutes before bottling.

Spoon the jam into the warmed jars and allow to cool. Seal, label and date the jars and store in a cool place.