Name: Strawberry Puree
Ingredients: 1 lb small Alpine strawberries; 1 lb pounded sugar

Strawberry Puree

Ingredients

1 lb small Alpine strawberries
1 lb pounded sugar

Directions

Prepare the puree

Rub the strawberries through a fine sieve.
Add the pounded sugar to the strawberry puree and mix well.

Bottle and store

Pour the mixture into bottles, cork them, and tie with string.
Place the bottles in a cool preserving pit filled with sand.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Strawberries: Supply the main flavor, color and liquid that make up the puree.
Pounded sugar: Sweetens the puree and helps preserve it by binding water.

“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.