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Fruit Syrups

A sweet liquid made by cooking fruit with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Fruit Syrups

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Wash the fruit.

  2. Cook the fruit in a double boiler until tender.

  3. Strain the mixture through a jelly bag.

Make the syrup

  1. Combine the fruit juice with sugar in a pot.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Fruit
Supplies the juice and flavor that form the base of the syrup.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, once dissolved and boiled, body to the syrup.

“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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