To Preserve Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Sprinkle strawberries with sugar and let sit for 2 hours.
Combine strawberries and sugar in a kettle.
Cook
Skim off any foam and boil for 20 minutes, being careful not to mash the strawberries.
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
- Strawberries
- Provide the fruit body and flavor; firm berries hold their shape during cooking.
- Sugar
- Draws moisture out of the berries and preserves them by concentrating the syrup.
The step that matters
Boil without mashing the strawberries. Sugar draws water out of the berries, so they soften and can break apart if stirred or boiled too hard. Gentle handling keeps the fruit whole while the syrup thickens.
“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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