Strawberry Preserves
Ingredients
Directions
Make the preserves
Combine the strawberries and sugar in a pot.
Heat until the sugar melts.
Boil the mixture for 20 minutes.
Jar and seal
Prepare your canning jars by heating them.
Fill the hot jars with the boiling fruit mixture and seal immediately.
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 body and flavor that the preserves are built around.
- White sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and helps thicken the mixture while preserving it.
The step that matters
Seal the jars immediately after filling. Filling hot jars with boiling mixture and sealing right away lets the heat drive air out and creates a vacuum as the jars cool, which helps keep the preserves sealed and safe to store.
“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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