Preserved Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the fruit
Weigh 1 pound of strawberries and 1 pound of refined sugar.
Combine the strawberries and sugar in a porcelain kettle over low heat.
Bring to a boil slowly for about 20 minutes.
Fill and seal the jars
Remove the strawberries with a perforated skimmer and fill hot jars nearly full.
Boil the remaining juice for a few minutes longer and fill the jars to the brim.
Seal the jars while hot and store in a cool, dry place.
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 fruit that gives the preserve its flavor, color, and body.
- Refined sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by binding water and inhibiting spoilage.
The step that matters
Boiling the strawberries with sugar. Bringing the mixture to a boil slowly lets the sugar dissolve and draw juice out of the fruit gradually, so the berries keep their shape. Boiling too fast or too long can break them down and make the preserve tough or overly thick.
“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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