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Strawberries in Cans

A method for preserving strawberries by canning them with sugar.

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. Scald the strawberries and sugar together.

  2. Fill the cans with the hot mixture.

  3. Seal the cans 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, flavour and bulk of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by binding water and slowing spoilage.

The step that matters

Seal the cans immediately. Sealing while the mixture is still hot lets the contents create a vacuum as they cool, which helps keep air and microbes out.

“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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