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Strawberries in Cans

A preserved fruit product made by scalding strawberries with sugar and canning the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Strawberries in Cans

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine sugar and strawberries in a pot and scald them together.

  2. Fill cans with the hot mixture and seal immediately.

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 forms the body and flavor of the preserve.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps preserve the fruit by binding water and inhibiting spoilage.

The step that matters

Fill cans with the hot mixture and seal immediately. The mixture must stay hot when sealed so that the heat drives air out and creates a vacuum seal. Letting it cool before sealing risks an incomplete seal and spoilage.

“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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