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To Preserve Strawberries

This recipe preserves strawberries by boiling them with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855 · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients
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To Preserve Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Use medium-sized, firm strawberries.

  2. Add a pound of sugar to a quart of strawberries and sprinkle the strawberries with sugar for a couple of hours.

Cook

  1. Put all into the kettle together.

  2. Skim the mixture well, and let it boil for twenty minutes. Be very careful not to mash the strawberries.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855. 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

Strawberries (in the method)
Supply the fruit, flavor, and juice that the sugar draws out to form the syrup.
Sugar
Draws water out of the fruit, sweetens it, and helps preserve it by thickening the syrup.

The step that matters

Boil for twenty minutes after skimming, without mashing. Prolonged boiling darkens the sugar and fruit and softens the berries. Stirring or mashing breaks their structure, so the fruit turns mushy instead of staying whole in a clear 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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