Homemade STRAWBERRY jam

Strawberries

The history of strawberries takes us back 2200 years to the territories of France and Italy, where only wild strawberries were originally known. They were grown as ornamental plants, not as food. People did not like them because their fruits were small, hard and tasteless. We have information about them from the first century in the works of the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid.

Our well-known garden strawberry appears much later. It was grown in Brittany, France in 1750 by crossing two varieties: Fragaria virginiana, brought from Northeast America and Fragaria chiloensis, brought from Chile. It is the only fruit that carries its seeds outside (on average about 200 seeds per strawberry). Strawberry leaves can be eaten raw, cooked and even used to make tea.