Preserved Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the syrup
Layer the strawberries and sugar in a bowl without adding water.
Place the bowl on the back of the stove until the sugar dissolves into syrup.
Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring from the bottom.
Set and jar
Spread the syrup on platters and set them out in the sun until it thickens.
Transfer the thickened syrup into jars like jelly.
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
- Strawberries
- Supply the fruit flavor and juice that dissolves the sugar into syrup.
- Sugar
- Draws water out of the fruit and, as it concentrates, thickens into a preserving syrup.
The step that matters
Stirring from the bottom while boiling. Sugar syrup that sits on the hot base of the pan can scorch and taste bitter. Stirring from the bottom keeps the sugar moving and heat evenly distributed as the mixture boils and thickens.
“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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