Good Eats S6E2P1: Strawberry Sky

Join Host Alton Brown to learn how to make the most of strawberry season. You can macerate them, glaze them, freeze them with dry ice, and even build a summer pudding in a tin can. AB even holds a quick lesson on the power of antioxidants.

Recipes featured in this episode: Clotted Cream, Macerated Strawberries, Strawberry Pudding, and Frozen Strawberries.

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[ppardee]

In US Colonial times (1600's) children of all ages drank beer because it was safer than water, because the alcohol killed any parasites or bacteria in the drink.

[marieariel]

I must disagree with clotted cream being so good - I'd much rather have good old fashioned whipped cream (sweetened.) The Brits don't sweeten whipped or clotted cream. I've had the marinated strawberries here in Italy, but have yet to see them served with vinegar. Maybe in the south?

[ppardee]

@AdIgnorantiam My friend, never let the facts get in the way of an entertaining piece of trivia (especially one that advances my point... which I have long since forgotten.) :)

[AdIgnorantiam]

@ppardee It was actually the boiling of the water that sanitized it, not the alcohol. They just didn't know it at the time it was the boiling so most people attributed beer's safety to the alcohol.

[SimuLord]

@aegisofhonor Agreed wholeheartedly. It's a bloody pain in the arse to do it stateside. And @marieariel is right anyway---sweetened whipped cream is much tastier on berries.

[aegisofhonor]

I have tried to make clotted cream, it's MUCH harder to make then Alton says it is, one HUGE problem is, 99.9% of all the heavy cream you will ever find in the supermarket is "ultra pasteurized", the ONLY time I have ever seen just "pasteurized" is in a specialty store for over $5 an 8oz carton....at that price, I might as well just buy the damn bottle of clotted cream in the bottle.

[cookiesluvkreme]

"You wicked bloody sot." LOL

[motorcitylora]

@enkeli19 No his shirt says "Vince"

[PINKbyVictoriaS]

@ppardee Cool fact, shows how horrible the sanitation was back then!

[deraifu]

Alton dislocated his shoulder on this episode, he had trouble getting up from thet cloth and when someone grabbed on to him to help him up...pop.

This story is also on the dvd that has this episode.

[Crunchy68]

@hhamor There used to be what they'd call "small beer", which meant it was brewed with low alcohol, and was kinda right up there with root beer. That's what kids (and wimps) would mostly drink.