Ohia Preserves
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Make a syrup of 2 parts sugar and 4 parts water.
Cook and bottle
Quarter the ohias and place them in the boiling syrup.
Cook for about 45 minutes until the fruit is clear.
Fill the preserves into sterilized bottles.
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. See the original page.
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What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit by lowering its available water.
The step that matters
Cooking until the fruit is clear. The fruit must cook long enough to become clear and tender as it absorbs the syrup, but overcooking can make it break down and turn mushy.
“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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