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Another Way to Preserve Strawberries

A method of preserving ripe strawberries by layering with sugar and heating over several days.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Another Way to Preserve Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Gather strawberries on a dry day, ensuring they are ripe and sound.

  2. Carefully pick them from the stalks.

  3. In a large dish, layer the strawberries and cover them completely with sugar.

Cook

  1. The next day, transfer the strawberries to a preserving pan and heat them through.

  2. Repeat the heating process the following day.

  3. On the third day, boil the strawberries rapidly for 15 minutes after they start boiling.

  4. Remove from heat and use a silver paper to skim off the scum.

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, flavour and bulk that the preserve is built around.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out moisture, and its high concentration helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Rapid boil on the third day. Boiling rapidly for the full 15 minutes after boiling starts drives off water and lets the sugar concentrate enough to set and keep the fruit. Stopping early can leave the preserve 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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