Strawberry cordial makes a delicious and healthy drink for children. The use of balsamic vinegar and black pepper brings out the flavour of the strawberries. It can be made in advance with cold chicken, but is also nice with hot chicken. This is a lovely salad for a light lunch or as an informal colourful starter. black pepper Chicken and strawberry salad.Culinary partnersĪmong the classic culinary partners for strawberries are: The best strawberries for jam tend to be small dark berries, which are sweet but with a high acid level, which come at the end of the season. As the season progresses they look to use strawberries in more complicated ways, such as in cakes, desserts, cordials, salads and for jam or compotes. Swedes tend to eat the first strawberries of the season very simply, with cream or ice cream. If you need to wash them, do so before hulling. If you need to keep them in the fridge, be sure to take them out of the fridge an hour or so in advance, otherwise they will be tasteless. They are best eaten as soon as possible after picking as strawberries do not keep very well. When selecting strawberries, look for berries that are completely ripe with all the berries red and unblemished. They need the longer warmer days to become really sweet and well flavoured. Whilst this means that strawberries start to appear in the shops earlier, be wary of the very early strawberries. Most strawberries sold in UK supermarkets are now grown in polytunnels. My Dad liked to grow alpine strawberries, but I never thought we ended up with enough to do much with, especially as the temptation to pick them as they ripened was hard to resist! You would certainly need to be very lucky to pick enough in a forest to make jam! Buying and storing However, in my experience wild strawberries are best just eaten as soon as you find them or kept as a garnish. Children like to thread them like beads on a string or skewer, to avoid the ripe soft berries becoming mushy.
Swedes love to pick smultron in forests, but they also like to grow them in gardens.Īlpine strawberries are very aromatic and sweet, but much smaller, less juicy, a little more seedy and usually darker than their big cousins. Smultron (wild or alpine strawberries), are more popular in Sweden than in the UK. However, locally grown freshly picked strawberries are superb anywhere imported strawberries are never as good. It is true that the cold climate and the long summer days give extra sweetness and flavour. Swedes believe that Swedish strawberries are unquestionably the best. They take centre stage during the dessert course of many meals, especially at midsummer and crayfish parties.
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