Best strawberry recipes from Homemakers
After devouring a few quarts (or litres) of plain strawberries, you can use these ruby fruits in their full splendour in fabulous desserts. Ranging from simple to complex, here a few of my favourite strawberry recipes from the pages of Homemakers magazine:
Simple pleasures
Besides dipping a strawberry in a little sugar, there are other simple ways of enhancing their natural sweetness to make the fruit even sexier. A simple honey syrup can do the trick (see Strawberries with Lemon Honey Syrup). A strange but traditional flavour pairing sets strawberries up with black pepper. It's a combo that shines in ice cream or sorbet (Strawberry Black Pepper Sorbet).
Simple pleasures
Besides dipping a strawberry in a little sugar, there are other simple ways of enhancing their natural sweetness to make the fruit even sexier. A simple honey syrup can do the trick (see Strawberries with Lemon Honey Syrup). A strange but traditional flavour pairing sets strawberries up with black pepper. It's a combo that shines in ice cream or sorbet (Strawberry Black Pepper Sorbet).
Madeira M'Dear?
Ever since my old family friend, Charlie Banino (former executive chef at the Paris Ritz and head of food and beverage at the Boston Ritz-Carlton in the 60s and 70s) introduced me to the pleasures of strawberries with Madeira, I've been hooked. Madeira is the superlative fortified wine from Portugal's semi-tropical island of the same name.
Lightly sweetened whipped cream flavoured with Madeira makes a heavenly partner to strawberries. Make the cream and either spoon over whole berries, or halve the berries and fold in the cream. It's wonderful -- plus, using Madeira gives you a chance to mouth the famous Flanders and Swann line (or, perhaps, the whole song.)
For a fancy version of strawberries with Madeira cream, serve them with chocolate pancakes in my Scandinavian-inspired Chocolate Griddle Cakes with Strawberry Madeira Cream.
I can't get enough of this flavour combination, so a couple of years ago I invented a Madeira Cream Bread Pudding with Strawberries.
Click to continue for more sweet strawberry recipes...
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Ever since my old family friend, Charlie Banino (former executive chef at the Paris Ritz and head of food and beverage at the Boston Ritz-Carlton in the 60s and 70s) introduced me to the pleasures of strawberries with Madeira, I've been hooked. Madeira is the superlative fortified wine from Portugal's semi-tropical island of the same name.
Lightly sweetened whipped cream flavoured with Madeira makes a heavenly partner to strawberries. Make the cream and either spoon over whole berries, or halve the berries and fold in the cream. It's wonderful -- plus, using Madeira gives you a chance to mouth the famous Flanders and Swann line (or, perhaps, the whole song.)
For a fancy version of strawberries with Madeira cream, serve them with chocolate pancakes in my Scandinavian-inspired Chocolate Griddle Cakes with Strawberry Madeira Cream.
I can't get enough of this flavour combination, so a couple of years ago I invented a Madeira Cream Bread Pudding with Strawberries.
Click to continue for more sweet strawberry recipes...
Page 2 of 3
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