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Preserved Strawberries

Preserved strawberries are strawberries laid out with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Gather strawberries in very dry weather, ensuring no rain for at least two days.

  2. Leave the stalks on and lay the strawberries separately on an earthen or china dish.

Sugar and preserve

  1. Sift sugar twice the weight of the strawberries over the strawberries.

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 fruit that is preserved, holding their shape and flavour under the sugar.
Sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and preserves it through osmosis, adding sweetness.

The step that matters

Gathering in very dry weather. Rain leaves water on the fruit and can dilute the sugar's effect, so the berries may spoil. Dry fruit lets the sugar draw out moisture and preserve well.

“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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