"Strawberry" and "Strawberries"

Tell me, who does not like to pick berries? For example, I love to not only collect, but eat. My most loved berries – strawberries. For some, it strawberry, or garden, or forest, and who Victoria. Back in College my friends and I were arguing, how is it properly called this berry. After all strawberry varieties are myriad. Today I want to bring a bit of clarity in this concept, but from my point of view. Still, I'm a grower, not a botanist or biologist. In review take the scientific point of view and your personal.
Begin a bit of history of his childhood. A lover of two-wheeled means I have from childhood. My friend Tanya often rode a Bicycle to pick berries.
Took a 5 liter bucket and small mug. In the Cup, and picked berries on the speed, and then poured into a bucket. The girls always have something to gossip, and then there's the time spent efficiently. But then the house had to strip the berries from the green leaves, but the fact of the visit and gathering berries remained in the shower for a long time.
I'm now on arrival to her parents in the city, go for berries, only now with their babies, who are happy to help collect. This berry, about which I now speak, is called the strawberry forest.
It grows mainly in meadows, fields. Ripen in late June early July. This berry takes a time: to collect, to sort, to process. Basically cook the jam, but the fruit drinks are also very tasty, and my favorite cookies diamonds.
Strawberry jam
1 kg of berries take a little bit less sugar, 800 grams. By itself, the berry is very ripe, so the jam turns out sweet. Berries pre-purified from green leaves(many people cook with them, but believe me, jam tastes much better without them), fall asleep sugar and leave for three hours to berries gave the juice. After that put to boil on the stove. Cook the jam in three sets of 10 to 15 minutes. Ready jam put in sterilized jars and close nylon covers.

At the cottage with my husbands parents we collect the strawberries that looked like this. This is one of the most fragrant wild berries. It grows in Sunny clearings and meadows.
Broad use of the strawberries found in folk medicine. It is valued as a medicinal plant. It is believed that over the summer need to be sure to eat a Cup of strawberries to get from it the necessary quantity of vitamins. The strawberries we mostly try to eat fresh, to keep it contained vitamins, and so it is possible to freeze these berries, and in winter to enjoy fragrant tea.
The strawberries with sugar

1 kg strawberries take 500 grams of sugar. Strawberries together with sugar, beat with a blender until smooth. Spread into small jars and put portions in the freezer.The strawberries with the sugar With this method the workpiece is retained useful properties of strawberries and the fragrance of the forest. How to get in the jar, will immediately plunge into summer...
The most popular and beloved children berry – strawberry macrocarpa, and in our opinion just Victoria. Large-fruited strawberry varieties "Victoria" was brought from America by sailors. Since then and attached the name "Victoria" to which we are accustomed.
Pie Victoria

1 tbsp. sour cream, 1 tbsp. semolina, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar, 2 eggs, 200 g melted margarine 200 g Victoria, 1 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 0.5 tsp. soda, slaked vinegar.
Eggs, beat with sugar, add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. In the end add the berries. The dough will be thick cream.Pie with Victoria In a greased baking pan with butter, pour the dough and put in oven, preheated to 190°C for 30-40 minutes. Bon appetit!
Whatever the name — strawberry or strawberry, the main thing that berry is tasty and healthy. From her cook marmalades and jams, make fruit drinks, freeze and, of course, consumed in fresh form. So next year be sure to sample the berry all classes: forest and garden.