Strawberry picked this morning, just needed to pick them up. $40 per flat.

[duke]

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I had to look just to find out what a "flat" is.

 

[Lurker]

Doesn’t seem long since you were posting pictures of deep snow, Duke!


Edit: just checked the exchange rate apparently £21.55

 

[duke]

The white stuff will come hopefully later than usual. We had a green xmas once.
I ate some strawberries on the way home, my wife wasn't happy with me.
What do you pay for a flat of strawberries?

 

[Lurker]

Any idea of what it weighed before you started scoffing them?

£2.75 for 600grammes this morning

 

[duke]

$ 6.60 for 600 g , more costly than yours.

 

[Lurker]

Due to the good spring weather there’s been a early large crop, we have had decent English strawberries for at least a month earlier than usual.

 

[Steve Maskery]

€3.99 for 250g... Good quality, though.
S

 

[duke]

Nothing like fresh berries, the supermarket strawberries are laking in flavour. They are shipped from Mexico and the USA.

 

[AJB Temple]

What you call a flat we call a tray. There is a glut right now and we pay £14 wholesale for a tray if we run out from our kitchen garden. At this time of year we pile them on pavlovas and use as cake layers and in ice cream.

 

[Steve Maskery]

How many kg is that, Adrian?

 

[CHJ]

Ours are all but finished, cropped over last two weeks of June. 1-2 kilos a day.
Two servings most days with cream,.
Surplus gifted to neighbours, and several kilos of jam produced.

Been a good crop of large berries this year, down to warm days and cool nights I believe which also increases sugar content.

 

[duke]

What you call a flat we call a tray. There is a glut right now and we pay £14 wholesale for a tray if we run out from our kitchen garden. At this time of year we pile them on pavlovas and use as cake layers and in ice cream.

Strawberries in ice cream, sounds good to me.

 

[duke]

Any idea of what it weighed before you started scoffing them?

£2.75 for 600grammes this morning

Roughly 3,600 g.

 

[AJB Temple]

How many kg is that, Adrian?

4kg. Two different local farms and the price is about £4 different between them as the varieties differ I presume as the more expensive one looks similar to wild berries. We've got a 4kg tray of strawbs and a tray of raspberries or logans and a couple of kilos of gooseberries coming today actually along with two flats of eggs (An egg flat is 48).

 

[Phil Pascoe]

There is only one thing to be eaten with strawberries or raspberries - clotted cream. Rodda's, down the road produce 25 tons a day.

 

[Lons]

................ - clotted cream. Rodda's, down the road produce 25 tons a day.

Is that just for your order Phil? It's a very long time since I had an authentic Cornish cream tea.

 

[AndyP]

I see that M&S are selling strawberries and cream sandwiches

 

[AndyP]

Is that just for your order Phil? It's a very long time since I had an authentic Cornish cream tea.

Which would have been scones with jam first I hope

 

[Steve Maskery]

Ah, proper cream.
You'd think that France would produce great cream. Not a bit of it.
The highest fat contenet you will find on the shelves is 35% (whereas proper double cream is 39-40%), so it never whips up properly, you have to add something called "chantifix", which I suspect is just cornflour, to get it to set up.
As for clotted cream, I can but dream.
S

 

[Lons]

Which would have been scones with jam first I hope

Of course but only because I find it hard to get the jam to stick on top of the cream.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Which would have been scones with jam first I hope

Proper cream teas are made with splits. When we were kids no one made them with scones.
Scones make sense commercially - splits go dry and stale quickly whereas scones keep for days.
Jam and cream work well on Yorkshire puddings as well.
Cream on good ginger cake is wonderful, as it on good icecream.

Some 30 years ago we had a lodger. I worked nights and used to pop my head around the back door of the bakery on the way home at 7.30am (the baker was a good friend) and pick up a large loaf, which would still be warm. One morning I was given some home made blackcurrant jam by a neighbour, so I got the cream out and put it on great wedges of bread with the jam. Ugh .................... you put that on bread? Disgusting. Ed was not impressed. Just shut up and eat it, I said. Before the second bite he said God, it's wonderful!

 

[Cabinetman]

What you call a flat we call a tray. There is a glut right now and we pay £14 wholesale for a tray if we run out from our kitchen garden. At this time of year we pile them on pavlovas and use as cake layers and in ice cream.

I seemed to remember having flats of Strawberries years ago at the wholesalers so I looked it up and it is a thing in the uk, but it’s also a weight, varies between 8 and 10 lbs.