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Stewed Strawberries

A sweet fruit dish made by boiling strawberries with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Stewed Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the sugar and water until clear.

  2. Add the strawberries and cook for 2-3 minutes after boiling begins.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the fruit that softens and releases juice into the syrup as it cooks.
Sugar
Dissolves into the water to make a sweet syrup that sweetens and thickens the fruit.

The step that matters

Cooking the strawberries for only 2-3 minutes after boiling begins. Strawberries break down quickly in hot syrup. Cooking them briefly keeps their shape and fresh flavour, while longer cooking turns them soft and mushy.

“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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