Yesterday I made something yummy: strawberry milk. The recipe is from Smitten Kitchen minimally adapted from Gabrielle Hamilton.
It's just a pound of berries macerated with a half cup of granulated sugar for a couple of hours. Then blend well the strawbs and juice. Mix with 3 cups of whole milk and 1 cup of buttermilk, and get it really cold. I put it in two mason jars, and it made about 7 cups. A great way to use up berries that are very ripe or blemished. My husband had it for breakfast this morning and loved it.
I was never a fan of strawberry ice cream or strawberry shakes, but this is just perfect. It thickens up, like halfway to a milkshake and ends up tasting richer than you would expect. And yet, it's just milk! Preamble as always fun to read. As usual, the things that GH probably concocted out of her pantry as a teenager end up being more than the sum of their parts.
