Strawberry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mash the strawberries in a bowl.
Add the powdered sugar and mix well.
Heat and cool
Let the mixture stand for 2 hours.
Heat the mixture to boiling point.
Cool until ready to use.
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
- Supply the main fruit flavor, natural acidity, and most of the liquid that makes up the sauce.
- Powdered sugar
- Adds sweetness and dissolves into the strawberry juices to balance their tartness.
The step that matters
Heat the mixture to boiling point. Heating just to a boil softens the fruit and blends the sugar in, while longer boiling dulls the fresh strawberry flavor and can scorch the sugar-rich mixture on the bottom of the pan.
“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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