[Sca-cooks] OOP Strawberries

[Heather Murray]

Sharon Palmer wrote:

>> I've got strawberries!  Lots of them!
>>
>> Suggestions?????????
>> One can only eat so many strawberries while picking them...
>>
>
> Let me pass on my favorite way to slice berries when you have lots and 
> lots of them.  I "invented" this when my mother used to make about 50 
> quarts of strawberry freezer jam each year.. and I got to slice them.
>
> Use the kind of pastry cutter that has blades, meant to cut shortening 
> into flour.  Just shove one berry after another into the blades and 
> let them fall into a bowl.  The blades are sharp enough to cut the 
> berries, but not your fingers.
>
> http://fantes.com/images/14692sifters.jpg has a picture of the gadget
>
> darn.. I could make some strawberry jam, but its not the same on rice 
> cakes or corn bread.
>
> Ranvaig *still grumbling*

Bet this'd work with an egg/mushroom harp, too.

Margaret


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