Basket of Pastry with Strawberries, a la Charlotte

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Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.
Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Line a large tube mould with pastry, fill with beans, bake.
When baked, scoop out, also make a separate handle from the pastry.
Fill with whole strawberries and on the top with whipped cream that contains some gelatine.
Decorate with alternate strips of strawberry and of cream, then with strawberries that have been glazed with sugar.
Serve with spun sugar all around.
This basket is beautiful filled with strawberry ice cream and decorated in the same way.
Timbale of Strawberries ( Fraises en Timbale ) a l’Anglaise Line a large timbale with puff pastry, fill with beans, bake.
When baked, remove the beans.
Make lady locks and bake;
fasten to the pastry cup with caramel.
Fill the lady locks with whipped cream and the cup with strawberries.
Decorate with whipped cream and strawberries on the top.
Twist a wreath of spun sugar around.
Lady Locks with Chartreuse of Strawberry, a la Ruth Williams Gateau feuillete, Chartreuse de Fraises, a la Ruth Williams Roll puff paste very thin, cut in strips about one inch wide;
twist around the lady locks at the widest end, and bake.
When baked, fill with strawberry chartreuse, sprinkle with powdered sugar on the top, and serve.
Filling.
One cup mashed strawberries, six tablespoons dissolved Cox’s gelatine, half cup sugar, one tablespoon brandy.
Stir on ice until thick, add one and a half cups whipped cream.
If not pink enough, tint with red coloring.
Garnish with spun sugar.