Strawberry or Fruit Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mash the strawberries in a bowl and sprinkle the sugar over them.
Let the mixture sit for 2 to 3 hours.
Cook and serve
Ten minutes before serving, transfer the mixture to a saucepan and heat it over medium heat.
Heat until just boiling, then remove from heat and serve.
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
- Strawberries
- Provide the main fruit flavor and most of the sauce's body as they break down.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the sauce and draws juice out of the strawberries as it sits.
The step that matters
Heat until just boiling, then remove from heat. Overheating a fruit sauce can dull its fresh flavor and cook it down too thick. Stopping at the first boil keeps the color bright and the texture loose.
“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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