Sun Preserved Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Hull and wash the strawberries.
Pour the same weight in sugar over the strawberries.
Let them stand in the cellar overnight.
Dry in the sun
Cover with glass.
Set in hot sunshine.
Bring it in at night.
Repeat this for four days.
Pack and seal
Put the berries in jelly glasses or glass jars.
Pour paraffin over the top or close with tight covers.
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
- The fruit whose water evaporates in the sun, leaving concentrated, chewy berries with intense flavor.
- Sugar
- Draws water out of the fruit and dissolves into it, sweetening it and helping it keep.
The step that matters
Bringing the berries in at night. Sugar draws water out of the fruit by osmosis, and sun heat evaporates it during the day. Covering the berries at night keeps the sugar syrup from being diluted by dew or cooling too quickly, so the drying process continues evenly over the four days.
“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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