Another Way to Preserve Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Gather strawberries on a dry day, ensuring they are ripe and sound.
Layer strawberries in a large dish and cover completely with sugar.
Heat and preserve
The next day, heat the strawberries in a preserving pan until warmed through.
Repeat the heating process for the next two days.
On the third day, boil the strawberries rapidly for 15 minutes after they start boiling.
Remove from heat and cover with air-dried silver paper to remove scum.
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, flavor and body that the sugar preserves and sets.
- Fine loaf sugar
- Draws water out of the fruit and sweetens it, helping preserve it against spoilage.
The step that matters
Boil rapidly on the third day. Rapid boiling drives off water so the sugar concentration rises enough to preserve the fruit and help it set. Boiling gently for too short a time can leave the fruit runny and more prone to spoiling.
“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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