Strawberry Ring

Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 ounces butter
• 2 ounces demerara sugar
• 4 ounces flour, sifted
• 2 ounces walnuts, chopped
• 1/2 ounce gelatin
• 4 tablespoons water
• 1 lb strawberry, hulled and thickly sliced
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 6 ounces caster sugar
• 1/2 pint double cream, whipped
• 1/4 pint double cream, whipped
• 1 large strawberry, sliced

Recipe

• 1 rub together the butter, demerara sugar, slour and walnuts as if making pastry. scatter the mixture over the bottom of a shallow baking tin. bake in a preheated moderately hot oven,(200*c/400*f)for 10 to 15 minutes, until golden brown. cool, then crumble into a bowl.
• 2 dissolve the gelatin in the water. put one quarter of the strawberries into a saucepan with the lemon juice and sugar and mash well.
• 3 bring to a boil, then remove from the heat and stir in the gelatin. strain a little of this mixture into a 2 1/2 pint ring mold, to coat the bottom. chill until set. let the remainder of the strawberry jelly cool but not set.
• 4 fold the remaining strawberry slices into the whipped cream. when the jelly is on the point of setting, fold in the strawberries and cream.
• 5 immediately make alternate layers of the strawberry mixture and crumbs in the ring mold, starting with strawberry and ending with crumbs. chill until set.
• 6 turn the ring out of the mold onto a serving platter. pipe the whipped cream for the decoration around the base of the ring and add the strawberry slices.