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Preserved Strawberries

Preserved strawberries are berries soaked in hot syrup and boiled in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and drain the strawberries thoroughly.

  2. Fill ten quart jars with the berries.

Add syrup and seal

  1. Pour hot thirty-degree syrup over the strawberries.

  2. Cover the jars tightly.

Process and store

  1. Boil the jars for 5 minutes.

  2. Store the jars as you would for peaches.

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
Supply the fruit, flavor and most of the texture of the finished preserve.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and moisture, filling the jars around the berries and keeping them covered.

The step that matters

Boil the jars for 5 minutes. Heat processing drives air out of the jars and destroys microorganisms that would spoil the fruit. A properly heated, tightly covered jar can then seal as it cools, which keeps the preserve stable in storage.

“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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