
The early strawberries are so delicious and well worth waiting for. I look for Malling varieties or Sweet varieties, like Sweet Eve. They are picked carefully, snapped off at the stem to protect the fruit from being squeezed by the picker, then they just need to be trimmed and washed. We have a lovely old strawberry strainer, so can run the cold water over them and sit the strainer on the matching plate while they dry off. Delicious sliced on a scone, with cream, but also cut small add another dimension to Muffins, with left over blueberries too !