Name: Barberry Preserve
Ingredients: Barberries; sugar or molasses

Barberry Preserve

Ingredients

Barberries
sugar or molasses

Directions

Select the finest barberries and tie them in clusters to sticks.
Boil the clusters in sugar syrup or molasses until preserved.

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

Barberries: Provide the tart fruit that is preserved and gives the dish its flavour.
Sugar or molasses: Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit by drawing out moisture.

“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.