Strawberry Preserve
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over, wash, drain, and hull the strawberries.
Make the preserve
In a pot, combine 3 cups of sugar with 1 cup of water to make a thick syrup.
Add the strawberries to the syrup and cook for 10 to 15 minutes.
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
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, with the cooking, thickens it into a preserve while helping it keep.
- Strawberries
- Provide the fruit flavor, color, and body of the preserve.
The step that matters
Cooking the strawberries in the syrup. Cook long enough for the syrup to thicken and set, but not so long that the fruit breaks down and the sugar darkens and turns bitter. Watch the texture rather than only the clock.
“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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