This is so simple to almost not be a recipe, but that is why it is so good. All you need is strawberries, cream, milk, and sugar. I also added raspberries and wild strawberries, which I grow in my small garden. Wild strawberries are special in Swedish culture and the title of Ingmar Bergman’s most copied and referenced film, Smultronstället. It does not literally mean a place where wild strawberries grow but it is a metaphor of an individual idea of what a special place is. Somewhere where everything is perfect at that moment. But wild strawberries, or smultron, do grow wild in Sweden and we thread them onto straws to carry them home.

INGREDIENTS

Strawberries or a mixture of strawberries, raspberries, and wild strawberries
Full fat milk
Cream
Caster sugar

METHOD

Sprinkle the sugar over the berries and pour over the milk and cream.

My Smultronställe, kayaking in Bohuslän archipelago north of Gothenburg.