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Strawberry Preserve

A preserve made by layering strawberries and sugar, then boiling until thickened.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the preserve

  1. Layer the strawberries and sugar in a preserving kettle.

  2. Allow the mixture to sit until enough juice settles to cook.

  3. Heat the kettle on the stove and boil slowly for 10 minutes.

Jar and seal

  1. Fill stone or glass jars with the preserve 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the fruit and the juice that dissolves the sugar and forms the base of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juice, and helps the preserve set and keep.

The step that matters

Letting the mixture sit before cooking. Sugar needs time to draw juice out of the strawberries. Cooking too early can scorch the fruit on the bottom of the kettle before enough liquid forms.

“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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