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Strawberry Conserve

A preserve made by boiling strawberries with sugar, drying, and packing in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Strawberry Conserve

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the strawberries for preserving.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the strawberries and let sit overnight.

Cook

  1. In the morning, place the mixture in a kettle and boil until the berries are clear.

Dry and pack

  1. Spread the mixture on dishes and place in the sun until dry.

  2. Roll the dried fruit in sugar and pack in jars.

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
Provide the fruit, flavor and tender body that the sugar and boiling transform.
Sugar
Draws water out of the fruit, adding sweetness and helping preserve it.

The step that matters

Boiling until the berries are clear. Boiling concentrates the sugar syrup and softens the fruit. Too little boiling leaves the preserve watery and less protected, while too much can make it overly thick and dark.

“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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