Strawberry Preserves
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cap the strawberries.
Combine 1½ pounds of sugar with 1 pound of strawberries in a bowl.
Let the mixture stand for 2 to 3 hours.
Cook
Boil the mixture for 30 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
- Strawberries
- Supply the fruit flavor and the juice that the sugar draws out.
- Sugar
- Draws water out of the fruit, sweetens, and helps the boiled syrup thicken and set.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture for 30 minutes. Boiling concentrates the sugar and fruit juice until the syrup thickens. Too little boiling leaves the preserves runny, while too much can darken the fruit and make it taste caramelized.
“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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