To Preserve Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.
Prepare
Wash and hull the strawberries.
In a saucepan, combine sugar and water; heat until sugar dissolves.
Cook and store
Add strawberries to the syrup and simmer for 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and let cool before transferring to jars.
Seal jars and store in a cool, dark place.
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
- Provide the fruit, which softens and holds its flavor in the syrup.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, at high concentration, helps preserve it by limiting spoilage.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar to form the syrup that surrounds the fruit.
The step that matters
Let the fruit cool before transferring to jars. Hot fruit and syrup packed into jars can create pressure and condensation problems and may not seal reliably. Cooling first lets the contents settle and helps the seal form properly.
“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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