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Canned Strawberries

A preserved strawberry preserve made by cooking strawberries with sugar and canning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Canned Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and hull the strawberries.

Cook

  1. Combine the strawberries and sugar in a pot.

  2. Cook over medium heat for 15 minutes.

Jar and seal

  1. Pour the mixture into sterilized jars and seal.

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
Provide the main fruit body, flavour and bulk that the jam-like mixture is built on.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by binding water and reducing spoilage.

The step that matters

Cooking over medium heat for 15 minutes. Heating the strawberries with sugar draws out juice and concentrates the mixture; too little cooking leaves it runny, while overcooking can scorch the sugar and dull the fresh fruit flavour.

“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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