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Sun-baked Strawberries

A sweet treat made by boiling sugar and water, adding berries, boiling, then sun-drying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Sun-baked Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine 1 quart sugar and 1 pint water in a pot.

  2. Boil the mixture to a thread.

Cook the berries and sun-bake

  1. Add 3 pints berries.

  2. Boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Pour into meat platters and set in sun to bake for 2 or 3 days.

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, when boiled into syrup, thickens and helps preserve it.
Berries
Provide the fruit, flavor and juice that the sugar syrup soaks up and concentrates.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup to a thread. Boiling concentrates the sugar, so the syrup thickens and helps preserve the fruit. Stop too early and the syrup stays thin; go too far and it turns hard and sticky.

“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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