Name: Stewed Dried Fruits
Ingredients: dried fruits (such as strawberries or raspberries); water (for soaking); sugar or molasses (to taste)

Stewed Dried Fruits

Ingredients

dried fruits (such as strawberries or raspberries)
water (for soaking)
sugar or molasses (to taste)

Directions

Prepare

Wash the dried fruits thoroughly and soak them overnight in water.

Stew

Stew the soaked fruits in the same water until they are soft.
Add sugar or molasses to taste and continue to stew slowly until done.
For strawberries, use an equal weight of sugar and do not mash them.

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

Dried fruits: Provide the main body and flavor of the dish as they soften during stewing.
Sugar or molasses: Adds sweetness and depth of flavor to the stewed fruit.

“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.