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Strawberry Preserves

A preserve made by cooking strawberries with sugar until syrup forms and then sealing the jar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine strawberries and sugar; set aside until syrup forms.

  2. Drain the syrup and bring it to a boil.

Cook

  1. Add the strawberries to the boiling syrup and cook for 7 to 10 minutes.

  2. Remove the strawberries, leaving the syrup to boil longer.

Seal

  1. Cork and seal the preserves.

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 flavour and the body of the preserves.
Sugar
Draws water out of the fruit to form syrup and preserves the fruit through its sweetness.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup after the strawberries are removed. Continued boiling thickens the syrup as water evaporates and sugar concentrates. Stopping too early leaves a thin syrup that may not set, while boiling too long can make it overly stiff.

“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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