Name: Strawberry and Raspberry Syrup
Ingredients: 4 cups fresh strawberries and raspberries, mashed; 3.5 pounds granulated sugar

Strawberry and Raspberry Syrup

Ingredients

4 cups fresh strawberries and raspberries, mashed
3.5 pounds granulated sugar

Directions

Make the syrup

Mash the fresh fruit and express the juice.
Heat the juice to 180°F (82°C) and strain it.
Add 3.5 pounds of granulated sugar to the juice and dissolve.

Can

Can hot in glass 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.

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What each ingredient does

Strawberries and raspberries: Provide the fruit juice that gives the syrup its flavour and colour.
Granulated sugar: Sweetens the juice and helps preserve the syrup by binding water.

“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.