Canned Berries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Heat berries slowly in a large kettle until boiling.
Once boiling, add 1 tablespoon of sugar for each quart of fruit.
If there is excess juice, remove it with a dipper or cup before adding sugar.
Can and seal
Fill cans with the hot fruit, ensuring they are overflowing.
Seal the cans tightly and screw again as they cool.
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 that forms the body and flavour of the preserve.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps preserve the fruit's flavour and texture.
The step that matters
Fill cans with hot fruit, overflowing. Filling the cans full with hot fruit drives out air as it cools, helping create a vacuum seal and reducing the chance of spoilage.
“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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