Ohia Preserves
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Make a syrup by combining 1 cup sugar and 2 cups water in a pot.
Bring the syrup to a boil.
Cook and bottle
Add the quartered ohia fruit to the boiling syrup.
Cook for about 45 minutes, until the fruit is clear.
Fill sterilized bottles with the preserves.
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
- Sugar
- Provides sweetness and, with the water, forms a syrup that helps preserve the fruit.
- Ohia fruit
- Provides the main flavor and the fruit pieces that soften and turn clear in the syrup.
The step that matters
Cooking the fruit until clear. Sugar syrup firms and clarifies fruit as it cooks. Stopping too early leaves the fruit firm and cloudy, while cooking too long can break it down and make the preserves 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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