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Strawberry Jelly

A preserved strawberry dessert made by boiling strawberries with water and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Strawberry Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Prepare the strawberries and place them in a jar.

  2. Set the jar in a kettle of lukewarm water.

  3. Cover and boil until the juice is expressed.

  4. Drain the juice through a bag and measure it.

Make the jelly

  1. Heat the sugar in the oven.

  2. Boil the juice for 20 minutes.

  3. Add the hot sugar to the juice and boil together thoroughly.

  4. 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

Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavour and the juice that forms the jelly base.
Sugar
Sweetens the jelly and helps it set when boiled with the juice.

The step that matters

Boil the juice and sugar together thoroughly. Sugar and pectin-containing fruit juice need sustained boiling to reach the concentration required for the mixture to gel when cooled. Under-boiling can leave the jelly runny.

“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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