Berry desserts: How to cook strawberry jam and cake.

There have been times in my childhood, when at the cottage we have grown whole strawberry plantation. And then at the very beginning of June, my mother brought to the "hacienda", first by a handful, then on the bowl, but at the end of the month - with buckets of red and insanely delicious berries. Handful we just ate, shared the berry to berry for the whole family (his portion of mom and dad gave us). Bowls consumed in the form of a dish - grated strawberries with sugar, can still sour cream. A bucket - understandably - have gone on home preparation.

And through all this had the duty to us children. You sit there, happened on the porch, shared the red and green and quiet hate this strawberry. Because gorging from the first - small - yields, but this will still go to compote. And after such a "brute force", sometimes you close your eyes, and strawberry all stands before the mind's eye. Great. Not moved. Still, after all - do not cease to love her less! And every season expecting a very special look.

My children do not consume strawberries buckets. And not to overdose. Our harvests are limited to "bowl". But nevertheless, eat strawberries just or frayed with sugar boring. So several times a season I do a light cake, I borrowed from my student days with a friend. Perhaps you and he will like? The names he has, but perhaps titled it

Strawberries with cream

To do this we need: Biscuit (you can use the purchase), strawberries - about 1 kilogram, sour cream - 500 g, sugar - no less than one glass, gelatin, a glass of water. If you belong to the category of people who do not play well with gelatin, do not worry. I also use it absolutely can not, but if all turns out. So, start ...

Gelatin soaked in water for instructions on the package. When it dissolved, the resulting solution should filter through gauze and mixed with cream and sugar. If gelatin is instant, the ingredients should be about one temperature.

Take a few peeled grapes, cut them in half and a pretty laid with the bottom of the form. Fill a thin layer of sour jelly. Later, this part will be riding, so it is done solely for aesthetic reasons. Put the form of a few minutes in the refrigerator. When a layer of "grab", carefully pour in the shape of the rest of the strawberries (very large, I usually cut into two parts), evenly distributed. Next, take a biscuit, we break it into pieces and lay on top of strawberries. Fill all the sour jelly. And in the refrigerator. A couple of hours cake is ready. In order to get dessert, you need a few seconds to put the form in hot water and invert on a plate. You will certainly enjoy it!

Strawberry jam

But if the yield is quite large, and cooking compotes and jams do not want, I can offer a way to store strawberries from my mother in law. The fact that she has a very small freezer and keep frozen berries just nowhere. In such cases, we do so.

Taken in equal proportions strawberries and sugar, all twisted in a meat grinder and placed in sterile jars. Top "for the preservation of" poured an extra layer of sugar. Keep these banks need in a cool place - the fridge or cellar, or covered with mold. Before the new year, they stand perfectly. We usually add them to yogurt. It turns out that's a kind of drinking yogurt. Tasty!

And what do you do with a fragrant red berries of summer?