Desserts Recipes - Wild Strawberry Creams Recipe

  
 

Fresh Fruit Desserts Recipes - Wild Strawberry Creams Recipe

Ingredients

SERVES 4

  • 4 tablespoons grenadine

  • 4 eggs

  • 50g/2oz caster sugar

  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

  • 400ml/14fl oz milk

  • 75g/3oz fraises des bois

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas mark 2. Pour 1 tablespoon grenadine into each of 4 x 200ml/7fl oz moulds.

  2. Beat the eggs and sugar in a bowl with the vanilla essence. Scald the milk in a saucepan and slowly stir it into the egg mixture.

  3. Strain into a jug, then pour into the moulds. The grenadine will mix into the milk, but then sink back to the bottom. Hull the fraises des bois and divide them between the moulds.

  4. Place the moulds gently in a roasting tin of hot water and bake in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes, until just set.

  5. Leave to cool, then cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours. Serve chilled.