Fresh strawberries, sugar and lemon juice are all that’s needed to make a batch of this sweet strawberry sauce — perfect for spooning onto waffles, pancakes, angel food cake and more.
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If early summer has a flavor, it might just be strawberry. It’s the fragrant reminder of childhood treks through strawberry fields and trips to the strawberry patch with my own kids — back when I used to color coordinate them with the berries we were picking.
We haven’t made it to a strawberry patch this year, though there’s still time here in Maine to squeeze it in. Our strawberry season runs through mid-July.
This is one of those times I realize how fleeting time can be. I want to hang onto the traditions I shared with my kids when they were younger. And yet, there never seems to be quite enough time. We try anyway.
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And we enjoy what we can, even if strawberry picking doesn’t happen this season (oh, but I so hope it does).
We were gifted some from a local patch that we eagerly ate. And when they began to look like they might approach past that point where they are past their prime, I transformed them into something delicious.
Something that extends their usefulness and is a delight to eat: homemade strawberry sauce.
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The simple combination of strawberries, sugar and lemon juice come together to create a fragrant sauce perfect for spooning onto breakfast items like waffles (we love making ours in a Death Star Waffle Maker) and pancakes or dessert like angel food cake and ice cream.
How would you use it?
This is a sauce I’ve been making for years. Its creation was spurred by my early endeavors into eating more sustainably. When I started thinking more about what we ate — the actual ingredients — I realized that I could make a better strawberry sauce than the frozen strawberries in syrup that my ex-husband favored. Not only is it less expensive, but we know for sure what’s in it and where it came from.
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This homemade strawberry sauce recipe makes about a quart. You can use it all at one or save some for later. It can be easily frozen as well.
Strawberry Sauce
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Ingredients
- 4 cups strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat until it comes to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
- Transfer to storage containers and freeze until ready to use. Defrost before using.
Kate
Monday 15th of July 2019
I remember strawberry season being later, it's so early here, it's already over!
BC
Saturday 30th of June 2007
What a great idea for the over abundance of strawberries that we just picked.