Whortle Berries for Winter Use
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Dissolve the sugar in a little water.
Boil the syrup until it thickens, reducing the quantity by at least one-fourth.
Cook the berries
Cook the berries in the syrup until thoroughly cooked.
Skim the berries into a stone jar.
Pour the thickened syrup over the berries.
For each pie, add about 2 tablespoons of water.
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
- Whortle berries
- Provide the main fruit body and flavor of the jam.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and, when boiled into syrup, thickens it as water evaporates.
The step that matters
Boil the syrup until it thickens. Sugar syrup must be reduced enough to thicken properly. Boiling off water concentrates the sugar, so the jam sets as it cools rather than staying 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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