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Strawberry Preserve

A sweet preserve made by boiling strawberries with sugar and water, then cooling and jarred.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup and cook

  1. Add just enough water to dissolve the sugar in a kettle.

  2. Add the strawberries and sugar until you have three pints of each.

  3. Boil for 20 minutes over high heat.

Dry and jar

  1. Pour the mixture onto a platter and set it in the sun for 8 hours.

  2. If set correctly, roll it up and place in jars; seal cold.

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
Supply the fruit, flavor and most of the body of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as it concentrates during boiling, helps the preserve thicken and keep.

The step that matters

Boil for 20 minutes over high heat. Boiling drives off water and concentrates the sugar and fruit solids. Too little boiling leaves the preserve runny, while too much can over-thicken it, so the set test matters.

“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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