To Preserve Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over the strawberries.
In a preserving kettle, combine strawberries and sugar.
Heat over low fire until the sugar melts.
Cook and seal
Boil the mixture for exactly 25 minutes.
Prepare jars by heating them before use.
Pour the boiling hot fruit into the heated jars.
Cover and seal the jars immediately.
Store in a cool place.
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, flavour and bulk that the preserve is built on.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the preserve and helps it keep by binding water and preserving the fruit.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture for exactly 25 minutes. Boiling concentrates the fruit and sugar and sets the texture. Undercooking leaves the preserve runny and more prone to spoiling, while overcooking can make it dark and overly thick.
“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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