To Preserve Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Weigh the strawberries and use the same weight in sugar.
Place the strawberries and sugar in a kettle with no more than ⅓ cup of water.
Bring to a boil and let it boil well.
Pour the mixture into a bowl and let it sit overnight.
Boil the mixture again the next day; if not clear, boil a third time.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Strawberries
- Provide the fruit, flavor and bulk that the preserve is built around.
- Sugar
- Sweetens and, in quantity, draws water out of the fruit to help preserve it.
The step that matters
Boiling until clear. Sugar must be dissolved and the mixture boiled long enough to thicken and set properly. If the mixture is still cloudy after the first boil, a further boil helps concentrate the sugar and clarify the syrup, as the method directs.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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