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To Preserve Strawberries Whole

This preserves whole strawberries by drawing out juices with sugar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lay the strawberries in a large dish.

  2. Sprinkle half of the sugar in fine powder over the strawberries.

  3. Let them sit to allow the sugar to draw out the juices.

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

Strawberries
Make up the fruit itself, so their texture and flavour carry the finished preserve.
Double-refined sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and sweetens it, helping to preserve it.

“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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