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Strawberry Preserve

Preserve made by boiling strawberries in a sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Strawberry Preserve

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Dissolve the sugar in enough water to make a syrup.

  2. Bring the syrup to a boil.

Cook the fruit

  1. Add a few strawberries and cook for 10 minutes.

  2. After cooking all the strawberries, boil the syrup for an additional 15 minutes.

  3. Pour the syrup over the fruit.

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

Sugar
Sweetens the preserve and, at this concentration, binds water so the syrup thickens and keeps.
Strawberries
Supply the fruit flavour and bulk, softening as they cook into the preserve.

The step that matters

Boil the syrup for the full additional 15 minutes after the fruit is cooked.. Boiling evaporates water and concentrates the sugar. Enough sugar concentration is what lets the syrup thicken and keep, so stopping early can leave the preserve runny.

“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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