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Strawberry Juice

A chilled strawberry juice made by mixing strawberries, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Strawberry Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate the fruit

  1. Mix equal weights of ripe strawberries and powdered loaf sugar.

  2. Let the mixture stand in a cool place for 12 hours.

Strain and dilute

  1. Strain off the juice.

  2. Add 2 tablespoons of the juice to ½ pint of cold water and stir.

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

Ripe strawberries
Supply the juice, flavour and aroma of the drink.
Powdered loaf sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and dissolves into the juice, adding sweetness.

The step that matters

Letting the mixture stand for 12 hours. Sugar draws liquid out of the strawberry cells by osmosis, so the juice forms over time. Standing too briefly yields less juice and a weaker flavour, so the full period matters.

“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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