Delicious during any season with matured strawberries

Ingredients

• ½ l cream
• 6 egg yolks
• 125g sugar
• 500g matured strawberries
• A little zest of lemon
• Juice of a complete lemon
• 4 cl Cointreau

Preparation

1. Clean and blend the strawberries.
2. Sieve and add lemon juice.
3. Whisk the vanilla with egg yolk and sugar in a bowl placed in a warm water-bath or "Bain Marie“ (after a French cook named Marie who invented this method) until the volume has increased significantly.
4. Add a little zests of organic lemons and Cointreau.
5. Allow to cool.
6. Add the whipped cream in two steps.
7. 'Grease' a cake tin with butter or margarine and add the parfait into it.
8. Freeze over night for at least 5-6 hours.

Serving suggestion

1. Arrange on a puree of strawberries containing Cointreau, or marinated fresh strawberries.
2. You might garnish it with a leaf or mint.