A Nice Way to Put Up Berries Ready for the Table
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the syrup
Pick over, wash, and drain the berries.
Make a weak syrup by heating sugar and water together. Keep the syrup hot.
Process and seal
Place the berries in cans and set them in cold water.
After the water boils, let the berries sit for fifteen minutes.
Pour the hot syrup over the berries and let them sit for another fifteen minutes.
Remove the cans and seal them.
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
- Berries
- Provide the fruit, which softens and holds its shape in the sugar syrup during heating.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, dissolved in water, forms the syrup that fills the cans.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar into a light syrup that carries heat and moisture into the berries.
The step that matters
Pouring the hot syrup over the berries. The syrup should be kept hot so the berries stay hot when sealed; cold syrup slows heat transfer and can leave the centre of the fruit under-processed.
“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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