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To Preserve Strawberries

This recipe preserves strawberries by boiling them in a sugar syrup and sun-drying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Preserve Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine sugar and enough water to cover it in a pot.

  2. Bring to a boil.

  3. Skim off any foam.

  4. Add the strawberries.

  5. Boil for 15 minutes.

Preserve in the sun

  1. Transfer the strawberries to shallow dishes.

  2. Cover with half of the syrup.

  3. Place the dishes in the sun for two days.

  4. Add the remaining syrup on the second day.

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
Provide the fruit that softens and absorbs the sweet syrup during preserving.
Sugar
Dissolves into the water to form a syrup that sweetens and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Boil for 15 minutes. Boiling dissolves the sugar fully into the water and concentrates the syrup. A syrup that is too dilute gives weaker preservation and a watery result.

“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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