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Strawberry Compote

A compote made by boiling strawberries with sugar syrup.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the strawberries in cold water and let them drain on a sieve.

Make the syrup

  1. In a saucepan, boil ¾ pound of sugar with water until it reaches a flake consistency.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the strawberries to the sugar syrup and gently boil for a moment, ensuring they do not separate.

  2. Skim off any foam and transfer the compote to serving dishes.

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 main fruit flavor and bulk, with their juices forming the compote's sauce.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, cooked into syrup, helps the berries keep their shape and moisture.

The step that matters

Gently boiling the strawberries in the syrup. Vigorous boiling breaks down fruit cell walls, so the berries soften and separate. A brief, gentle boil keeps them whole while the syrup thickens around them.

“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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