Syrup of Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Select fully ripe, undamaged strawberries and place them in a glass jar.
Add the powdered sugar and shake the jar occasionally.
Allow the mixture to sit until the sugar extracts the juice and the berries shrivel.
Finish
Filter the syrup to remove the pulp and store it for use.
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 flavour and the juice that dissolves the sugar into syrup.
- Powdered sugar
- Draws moisture out of the berries and sweetens the syrup as it dissolves.
The step that matters
Letting the mixture sit until the berries shrivel. The sugar must draw enough juice out of the fruit to form a syrup. Stopping too early leaves a thin, unevenly sweetened liquid, and the pulp may not separate cleanly when filtered.
“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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