Maple-flavoured fruit salad with strawberries and grapes (Salade de fruits à l’érable)
The first spring strawberries are small and extra flavourful. Maple-flavoured fruit salad with strawberries and grapes. Photo: Gordon Beck
Jane Livingston at Lac Brome, Quebec
Jane Livingston, a baker and caterer in Knowlton, created this refreshing salad to serve with her muffins and scones. Use the first Quebec strawberries and the best imported green seedless grapes, she recommends. A convenient recipe, it can be made from one to four hours before you serve it. It makes a good brunch dish with muffins or scones.
Salade de fruits à l’érable
2015-03-17 14:08:36
Serves 8
Ingredients
- 4 cups (1 L) fresh strawberries, quartered, rinsed, drained on paper towels.
- 2 cups (500 mL) seedless green grapes, halved or quartered*
- 1/3 cup (75 mL) maple sugar or brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons (30 mL) chopped fresh mint
- ¼ teaspoon (1 mL) vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine strawberries and grapes. Add sugar, mint and vanilla, tossing to coat fruits. Cover and refrigerate from one to four hours.
- Serve in small bowls.
Julian Armstrong https://www.julianarmstrong.com/
Maple sap is harvested and boiled into syrup each spring at Owl Hoot Maple Farm, Stanbridge East. Photo: Gordon Beck
John Rhicard, owner of Owl Hoot Maple Farm, checks the maple sap as it boils. Photo: Gordon Beck