Posts Tagged "strawberry"

heavenly strawberry jam

Posted by hannah on Jul 25, 2010 in jams & preserves | 1 comment

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My dad makes the best strawberry jam – ever! Imagine a bread roll fresh from the oven, a bit of butter and fresh strawberry jam. The sun is rising with every bite! At least for me. You see, I took this glass of jam with me to post the recipe, but it did not even last until I was able to take this photograph.

There are only a few things that need to be considered when making jam: take care that all your utensils are clean, especially the glasses that will hold the finished produce! Thus: Clean your glasses by placing them in boiling water for a few minutes. There are machines that do it for you, but it is as easy as this. Once you are done with the jam you will need use a short-stem funnel or some creative pouring abilities to pour the jam into the glass.

There are several types of preserving or jam sugar – and there are even ones designed for specific fruits. For this specific jam my dad uses strawberry-preserve sugar, like this one, which is balanced in its contents of sugar, pectin and citric acid specifically to strawberries.

So here we go. Let’s imagine you want to preserve 1kg of fresh and ripe strawberries, which would translate into appr. 8 0.25 l / 0.85 oz glasses like the one pictured above.

strawberry-rhubarb crumble

Posted by hannah on May 30, 2010 in dessert, tart /pie | 3 comments

Rhubarb and strawberry. May. Spring. There is no better combination than this. Believe me. I instantly felt warm and happy inside when I came across 101cookbooks to see this recipe. It took another two weeks until, finally, strawberries and rhubarb of decent quality were available at my local bio store. So here we go. No modifications were needed for this one. Well, I left out the port wine though and did skip the pepper she calls for.