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Plain Canned Berries

A preserved fruit product made by washing, straining, sugaring, cooking, and canning berries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Plain Canned Berries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Wash and stone the berries.

  2. Strain the juice and add it to the fruit.

  3. Sprinkle with sugar, allowing 1 cup of sugar for each quart.

  4. Let stand until the juice settles.

Cook and can

  1. Cook slowly for 10 minutes.

  2. Pour into cans and seal.

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

Berries
Provide the fruit itself, along with most of the flavour and texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and draws juice out of the fruit, helping it keep in the can.

The step that matters

Cook slowly for 10 minutes. Gentle heat softens the fruit and dissolves the sugar without breaking the berries apart. Boiling hard can turn them mushy and cloudy.

“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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