for now i can say i have mine.
1.2 kg gardens picked strawberry
1 kg sugar
zest of 1 lemon non-treated
juice of 1/2 lemon
vanille bean 1/2
traditional, people always put 1:1 ratio of fruit and sugar, i am trying to reduce it a bit, and come up to this ratio.
i always keep the pod of the vanilla bean and keep them in the sugar container, by this actually perfumer the sugar, and always can use it when poaching fruit, pastry cream or vanilla sauce. and always handy to put it in cooking jam.
yet, the use of the bean is not finish yet, dry them in the oven in very low heat, ground them and put in the cookies or cakes.
