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Strawberry-Raspberry Preserves

Preserves made from hulled strawberries and raspberry juice sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,101 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry-Raspberry Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Crush, heat, and extract the juice from raspberries.

Make the preserves

  1. Combine 1 cup of raspberry juice with 2½ cups of sugar.

  2. Add the hulled strawberries and cook until thick.

  3. Put in sterilized jars and seal.

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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the preserves and helps them set into a thick, spreadable texture.
Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and body of the preserves.
Raspberry juice
Adds raspberry flavor and liquid for the fruit to cook in.

The step that matters

Cooking until thick. Sugar and fruit pectin set the mixture as water evaporates and the sugar concentration rises. Stopping too early leaves a runny preserve, while overcooking can make it stiff and sugary.

“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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