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To Preserve Strawberries Whole

Preserves whole strawberries by sugar and syrup.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate

  1. Spread the strawberries on large dishes and sprinkle half of the sugar over them.

  2. Gently shake the dish to ensure the sugar contacts the underside of the fruit.

  3. The next day, make a thin syrup with the remaining sugar.

Make the syrup

  1. Pour the juice from the berries into the sugar and simmer the strawberries in this syrup until sufficiently jellied.

Jar and seal

  1. Place the strawberries in glass jars or tumblers.

  2. When cold, cover with brandied paper and seal with egg white.

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
The fruit being preserved; it softens and holds its shape as it simmers in the syrup.
White sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and thickens the syrup, helping it set into a jelly-like coating.

The step that matters

Simmering the strawberries until sufficiently jellied. Sugar concentration and heat together set the syrup into a gel. Stopping too early leaves a runny syrup that spoils more easily, while cooking too long can make the fruit tough and overly dark.

“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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