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Strawberry Honey

A sweet syrup made from sugar, water, mashed strawberries, and alum, boiled and served in glasses.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Strawberry Honey

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes.

  2. Add the mashed strawberries and the piece of alum.

  3. Boil for an additional 5 minutes.

Serve

  1. Pour the mixture into glasses.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and thickens it into a syrup as the water cooks off.
Mashed strawberries
Add the fruit flavour and colour to the syrup.

The step that matters

Boiling with the strawberries. Sugar concentrates as the mixture boils, so boiling longer after the fruit is added thickens it further and can dull the fresh strawberry 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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