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Preserved Raspberries

Preserved raspberries are berries cooked in sugar syrup and sealed in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Preserved Raspberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Set aside half of the raspberries, selecting the largest and firmest ones.

  2. Mash the remaining raspberries in a preserving pan and heat them until boiling.

  3. Remove from heat, let cool, and strain through a bag.

Make the syrup

  1. In a clean kettle, combine the sugar and cold water, then heat until the sugar melts.

  2. Boil the syrup until it thickens and the scum ceases to rise, skimming as needed.

  3. Add the whole raspberries to the syrup and boil for a few minutes without bursting them.

  4. Remove the raspberries with a skimmer and spread them on a dish to cool.

Combine and jar

  1. Mix the strained juice with the syrup and boil for 10-15 minutes.

  2. Add the whole raspberries back to the syrup and boil once more without breaking them.

  3. Transfer the warm mixture into glass jars or tumblers, cover with brandy-soaked paper, and seal tightly.

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

Raspberries
Provide the fruit flavour, colour and body; whole berries keep their shape while the juice sets the texture.
Fine loaf sugar
Sweetens and thickens the syrup, and helps preserve the fruit by drawing out moisture.

The step that matters

Boiling the whole raspberries in the syrup. Boiling too hard or too long breaks the berries apart. Gentle simmering keeps them whole while the syrup thickens and sugar penetrates the fruit.

“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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