Phil Vickery served up a tasty strawberry summer slice (Strawberry Mille Feuille) with cream, puff pastry and jam on this morning.
The ingredients are: 1 large sheet ready rolled puff pastry, 1 tbsp vanilla extract, 560ml double cream, very lightly whipped, 4-5 tbsp good quality strawberry jam, 300g ripe, fresh English strawberries, hulled and sliced and 8-10 tbsp icing sugar.
For the strawberry sauce: 300g fresh ripe strawberries, washed and hulled, About 100g castor sugar, depending on the sweetness of the strawberries, Juice of half a lemon and 2-3 tbsp good quality strawberry jam, if strawberries are a little tasteless.
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