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Strawberry Syrup

A sweet syrup made by boiling strawberries with water and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Strawberry Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Heat the strawberries until soft.

  2. Strain the juice.

Make the syrup

  1. Combine the juice with 1 pound of sugar for each pint of juice.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  3. Skim off any foam.

  4. Boil gently for 10 minutes.

Seal and store

  1. Seal the syrup in sterilized jars.

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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What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the flavor and the juice that becomes the syrup.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and, as water evaporates, thickens it and helps it keep.

The step that matters

Boil gently for 10 minutes. As water evaporates, the sugar becomes more concentrated, so the syrup thickens and becomes more stable for storage. Boiling too briefly leaves the syrup thin and less likely to keep, while a hard boil can scorch the sugar.

“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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