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Strawberry Conserve

A preserve made by sweetening strawberries, boiling, drying, and packing in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Strawberry Conserve

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the strawberries for preserving.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the strawberries and let sit overnight.

Cook

  1. In the morning, boil the mixture in a kettle until the berries are clear.

Dry and pack

  1. Spread the mixture on dishes and place in the sun to dry.

  2. Once dry, roll the fruit in sugar and pack it into jars.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Supplies the fruit, flavor and most of the body of the preserve.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the fruit, draws water out of the berries and helps preserve them.

The step that matters

Boil until the berries are clear. Boiling concentrates the sugar syrup and lets it penetrate the fruit. Stopping early leaves more water in the preserve, so it is more likely to spoil.

“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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