Name: Canned Blackberries
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 2 cups water; blackberries

Canned Blackberries

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
2 cups water
blackberries

Directions

Make the syrup

Boil sugar and water together for 10 minutes to make syrup.

Pack and seal

Fill cans with blackberries.
Cover the blackberries with the warm syrup.
Seal jars without rubbers or leave the vent open if using new patent jars.
Follow steam canning directions.

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

Sugar: Sweetens the blackberries and helps the syrup carry flavor.
Blackberries: Provide the main fruit flavor, color, and texture of the finished jars.

“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.