Canned Strawberries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the jars
Fill glass jars with strawberries and sprinkle with sugar.
Stand jars in a wash boiler filled with water, ensuring water is milk-warm.
Process and seal
Boil for 15 minutes, then remove jars and place on a table.
If needed, fill jars to the top with juice from another jar.
Wipe the neck of the jar, dry it, and screw the top down firmly.
Invert jars occasionally as they cool to keep berries from settling.
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 shape in the syrup as it cooks.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice, helping form a syrup that preserves the berries.
The step that matters
Ensuring the wash boiler water is milk-warm before boiling. Jars placed in water that is too hot or too cold can crack from sudden temperature change. Starting warm and heating gradually reduces thermal shock to the glass.
“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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