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Strawberry Mixture

A sweet strawberry mixture made with fresh berries, sugar syrup, and water, served over shortcake.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the strawberries, hull them, and cut each berry in half.

  2. Prepare a syrup by boiling the sugar and water together for 4 minutes.

Macerate the berries

  1. Pour the hot syrup over the berries.

  2. Let the berries stand for at least 1 hour.

  3. Lift the berries from the syrup.

Serve

  1. Place them between layers and on top of shortcake.

  2. Strain the syrup into a pitcher or bowl to serve with the shortcake.

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 main fruit flavor and juice that forms the topping.
Sugar
Sweetens the berries and dissolves into the syrup that coats them.

The step that matters

Boil the sugar and water for 4 minutes. Boiling fully dissolves the sugar into a clear, even syrup. Undissolved sugar can leave grains and uneven sweetness on the berries.

“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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