Canned Berries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the berries
Wash the berries in a pan of cold water.
Remove any debris from the berries.
Place the berries in a crock.
Transfer the berries to a stew kettle.
Cook
Add ½ cup of water to the stew kettle.
Bring the mixture to a boil.
Skim off any foam.
Add sugar to taste, about 1 cup per quart of berries.
Boil for a few minutes.
Can
Pack the berries into cans.
Seal the cans immediately.
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
- Berries
- Provide the main fruit, flavour and bulk of the preserve.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by binding water and limiting spoilage.
The step that matters
Seal the cans immediately. Sealing while the berries are still hot creates a vacuum as they cool, which helps keep air and microbes out. Delay lets contamination in and weakens the seal.
“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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