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To Preserve Barberries for Tarts

This recipe preserves barberries in sugar syrup for use in tarts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Preserve Barberries for Tarts

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the barberries in a jar.

  2. Add an equal weight of loaf sugar.

Make the preserve

  1. Set the jar in a kettle of boiling water until the sugar melts and the barberries are soft.

  2. The next day, transfer the mixture to a preserving pan and boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Pour into jars.

Store

  1. Store in a dry, cool place.

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

Barberries
Supply the tart fruit flavour and the pulp that softens into the preserve.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, at this weight, helps preserve it by binding water.

The step that matters

Melting the sugar in the water bath. The sugar must fully dissolve and the barberries must soften before boiling. Undissolved sugar can leave the preserve grainy and can crystallise during storage.

“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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