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Strawberry Preserves

A preserve made by combining strawberries with sugar, boiling the syrup, and cooking the fruit until done.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Strawberry Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate

  1. Combine strawberries and sugar in a bowl.

  2. Let them sit overnight.

Make the preserves

  1. Strain off the syrup.

  2. Boil the syrup until it reaches a jelly consistency.

  3. Add the strawberries to the syrup.

  4. Boil until the fruit is done.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavor, texture, and body of the preserves.
Sugar
Draws liquid out of the fruit to form syrup and helps the preserves set and keep.

The step that matters

Boil the syrup until it reaches a jelly consistency. Sugar concentration determines setting. Boiling off enough water raises the sugar level so the preserves gel when cooled; undercooked syrup stays runny.

“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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