Name: Canned Raspberries
Ingredients: 2 pounds raspberries; 1 pound sugar

Canned Raspberries

Ingredients

2 pounds raspberries
1 pound sugar

Directions

Prepare

Combine raspberries and sugar in a pot.
Stir the mixture before heating.

Cook and seal

Bring to a boil.
Seal the hot mixture in glass 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Raspberries: Provide the main fruit body, flavor, and bulk of the preserve.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and helps preserve the fruit by binding water and inhibiting spoilage.

“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.