STRAWBERRY & CREAM
90 mins
6 people
Relatively Simple
No meal is complete without a sweet, and none is more beloved than the year-round favourite strawberries and cream.
Ingredients
- 6 punnets of ripe strawberries
- 75 g castor sugar
- 300 ml pouring cream
- 50 g icing sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
Procedure
- Remove the stems from the strawberries & cut in half lengthwise
- Place 1/2 in a bag with the castor sugar & seal at full pressure
- Steam at 50°C for 1 hour to produce a limpid syrup
- Decant the syrup through a fine strainer into a small jug & refrigerate
- Discard the cooked strawberries
TO SERVE
- Just before service (not more than 1 hour) place the remaining strawberries & add the (cold) syrup
- Seal at full pressure
- Split the vanilla bean & scrape the seeds into a 500 ml jug
- Add the icing sugar
- Whip to firm peaks using a wand blender
- Divide the strawberries & syrup between 6 bowls & add a dollop of cream to each
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