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Strawberry Jelly

A preserve made by cooking strawberries with sugar and optional currant juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and white currant work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. The science ↓

Strawberry Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Remove the stems from the strawberries and bruise them slightly.

  2. Stir the strawberries over a gentle fire for a few minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture without pressure and weigh the juice.

  4. Boil the juice quickly for 20 minutes in a preserving pan.

Make the jelly

  1. Stir in 3 lbs of sugar for every 4 lbs of juice until dissolved.

  2. Boil again quickly for 20 minutes, skimming off any scum.

  3. Pour the jelly into jars or glasses.

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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + white curranttop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together59 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavour and the juice that forms the body of the jelly.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, with boiling, helps the juice thicken and set as it cools.

The step that matters

Boil again quickly after adding the sugar. Sugar must be fully dissolved before the second boil. A brisk boil for the stated time concentrates the juice so it can set. Too little boiling leaves the jelly runny, while too much darkens the colour and flavour.

“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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