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Strawberry Jelly

A fruit preserve made by boiling strawberries with sugar to produce jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Strawberry Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Press the juice from the strawberries and strain it through a jelly bag.

  2. Measure the juice and for each pint, use 1 pound of sugar.

Cook the jelly

  1. Boil the juice for 10 to 15 minutes before adding the sugar.

  2. After adding the sugar, boil for an additional 15 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the juice that forms the body and flavor of the jelly.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the jelly and helps it set by binding water and aiding gel formation.

The step that matters

Boiling the juice before adding the sugar. Boiling first concentrates the juice by evaporating water, so the sugar and natural pectin can form a firm gel when the jelly cools. Too little boiling can leave the jelly runny.

“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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