Shanghai Peach with Fraises des Bois

The strawberries pictured in medieval mosaics are the small, wild woodland strawberries or fraises des bois, which are sweet and scented, their flavour best when freshly picked. The diminutive alpine strawberries, bright red in colour, are much harder to come by but well worth the hunt. Their flavour is quite intense. You might find them growing in the edging or mixed border of a herb garden. There is nothing sweeter than the golden flesh of a perfectly ripe peach, its skin flushed pink fro