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Preserved Strawberries

Preserved strawberries are strawberries boiled in sugar syrup until soft, then sealed in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Preserved Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine sugar and water in a pot and boil to create a rich syrup.

  2. Add strawberries to the syrup and boil until they are clear and soft.

  3. Remove the strawberries and place them on a dish.

  4. Continue boiling the syrup until it becomes very thick and rich.

Finish and seal

  1. Return the strawberries to the syrup and heat thoroughly.

  2. Transfer to jars and seal.

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

Sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and thickens the syrup, helping preserve the strawberries.
Strawberries
Provide the fruit that softens in the syrup and takes on its sweetness and texture.

The step that matters

Continue boiling the syrup until very thick. Sugar must reach a high concentration to bind water and stop spoilage. A syrup that is too thin leaves the fruit more prone to spoiling in storage.

“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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