Another Compote Op Barberries for Dessert
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Combine sugar and water in a copper or enamelled pot and boil until it forms a syrup.
Cook the barberries
Add the bunches of barberries to the syrup and simmer for 5 to 6 minutes until the barberries become transparent.
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
- Barberries
- Provide the tart fruit flavour and the main body of the compote.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the compote and, dissolved in water, forms the syrup the fruit cooks in.
The step that matters
Simmering the barberries. Simmer gently only until the fruit turns transparent. Prolonged or vigorous boiling can break the skins and make the fruit fall apart, while too short a time leaves it underdone.
“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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