To Preserve Strawberries Whole

Select fine scarlet strawberries before they are too ripe.

Lay the selected strawberries separately on a dish.

Use twice their weight of double refined sugar.

Sprinkle the sugar over the strawberries.

Crush a few ripe scarlet strawberries.

Mix the crushed strawberries with an equal weight of double refined sugar in a jar. Cover the jar.

Let the jar stand in boiling water until the strawberries soften and syrup forms.

Drain the mixture through a muslin rag into a pan.

Boil the drained liquid. Skim the boiled syrup.

Once the syrup is cold, add the whole strawberries to it.

Warm the strawberries gently without boiling. Repeat the warming several times until the strawberries look clear.

Once the mixture is cooled, place the strawberries in jars with the stalks down.

Fill the jars with syrup. Seal the jars with brandy papers.