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Créme aux Fraises.—Strawberry Cream

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Coffee
  2. a pint of milk
  3. Sugar
  4. Cream
  5. a pint of strawberries

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Strawberry High in vitamin C · Source of manganese

    High in vitamin C · 59 mg per 100 g, 74% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Source of manganese · 0.4 mg per 100 g, 19% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Manganese contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Manganese contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    • Manganese contributes to the normal formation of connective tissue.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Manganese contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Manganese is a mineral that your body needs to stay healthy. Your body uses manganese to make energy and protect your cells from damage. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Strawberries, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

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

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Take about half a pint of strawberries, and, having picked, washed, and well drained them, pound them in a mortar;
  2. then boil a pint and a half of cream with half a pint of milk and some sugar, till consumed to half;
  3. take it off the fire, and, when rather cool, put in the strawberries, mixing them well, adding also, whilst lukewarm, a small piece of runhet about the size of a coffee berry;
  4. strain the whole through a sieve, and put it into a dessert plate that will bear heat;
  5. cover it with a lid that will admit fire on it, and, when the cream is set, put it into a cool place or upon ice, till you are ready to serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Sieve
  • Colander
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Credit

From French domestic cookery, combining economy with elegance, and adapted to the use of families of moderate fortune (1825), printed page 293, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b33288665

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.