Preserved Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve the sugar in enough water to make a thick syrup.
Bring the syrup to a boil.
Add the strawberries and boil rapidly for 15 minutes.
Cook in small batches.
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
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, in a thick syrup, helps preserve it by binding water.
- Strawberries
- Provides the fruit, flavour and most of the texture of the finished preserve.
The step that matters
Boil the strawberries rapidly for 15 minutes. A rapid boil evaporates water and concentrates the sugar syrup. A gentle simmer may not reach the sugar concentration needed to preserve the fruit and may leave it 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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