Strawberry or Raspberry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Heat an earthen bowl on the stove until hot.
Remove the bowl from the stove and add the berries and sugar.
Make and seal the jam
Beat the mixture hard with a wooden spoon for 1.5 hours.
Do not cook the mixture.
Transfer the jam into jars and seal with egg papers.
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
- Strawberries or raspberries
- Provide the main fruit flavor, color and body of the jam.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and helps preserve it by binding water in the fruit.
The step that matters
Do not cook the mixture. Because the jam is not boiled, it does not thicken through heat as cooked jam does. Beating the fruit and sugar together is what works the mixture, so it should be kept as instructed rather than heated.
“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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