Strawberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Remove the hulls from the strawberries.
In a deep dish, layer the strawberries and sprinkle the powdered sugar over them.
Let the mixture sit for 10 to 12 hours.
Cook
Afterward, boil the strawberries and sugar together very slowly for 30 minutes.
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, flavor, and pectin-bearing body that the jam sets from.
- Powdered sugar
- Draws moisture out of the berries and helps preserve and thicken the jam.
The step that matters
Letting the sugar macerate. Resting the berries in sugar for 10 to 12 hours draws out juice and dissolves the sugar before cooking. Skipping or shortening this rest leaves more undissolved sugar and firm, unevenly cooked fruit.
“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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