Name: Sunshine Strawberries
Ingredients: equal quantities of strawberries; equal quantities of sugar

Sunshine Strawberries

Ingredients

equal quantities of strawberries
equal quantities of sugar

Directions

Prepare

Combine strawberries and sugar in a pot.
Heat the mixture to boiling.

Dry in the sun

Pour into jelly glasses.
Place the glasses in direct sunlight for about one week.

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 fruit that dries, along with its flavor and natural sweetness.
Sugar: Draws water out of the fruit and helps preserve it as it dries, adding sweetness.

“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.