Why it works: Berry and sugar work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 146 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓
To Can Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the berries
Rinse the berries quickly to remove sand, then measure them in a quart container.
Sprinkle the sugar over the berries and let them stand for 1 hour.
Drain off the juice and bring it to a boil in a porcelain kettle.
Cook and can
Add the berries to the boiling juice and boil for 15 minutes, skimming well.
Can the mixture for later 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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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Berry + sugartop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together146 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
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What each ingredient does
- Strawberries
- Provide the fruit and its juice, which becomes the syrup the berries cook in.
- Granulated sugar
- Draws juice out of the berries and sweetens the fruit, while helping preserve it.
The step that matters
Skimming while the berries boil. Foam and fruit particles rise to the surface as the mixture boils. Removing them keeps the syrup clear and the final product clean-tasting.
“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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