Strawberry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean and mash the strawberries.
Heat the mashed strawberries and strain them through cheesecloth.
Cook and serve
Add the sugar and boil until it thickens into a syrup.
Serve cold over ice cream.
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 main flavor, moisture, and natural pectin that helps the sauce set.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and, when boiled down, thickens the juice into a syrup.
The step that matters
Boiling the sugar into a syrup. Sugar thickens as water evaporates and the mixture cools. Boil too little and the sauce stays thin; boil too long and it becomes too stiff once cold.
“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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