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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 the strawberries

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

Make the syrup and cook

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

  2. Add the strawberries to the sugar syrup and let them boil gently once, ensuring they do not separate.

  3. Skim off any foam and transfer the strawberries to compote 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.

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What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavour and form the body of the compote.
Sugar
Sweetens the dish and, cooked into a syrup, gives the compote its body.

The step that matters

Boiling the strawberries gently once. Vigorous or prolonged boiling breaks down the fruit, so the berries separate and turn mushy. A single gentle boil in the syrup keeps them whole while the syrup thickens.

“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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