Name: Strawberries for Cream
Ingredients: 2 cups strawberries; 2 cups sugar

Strawberries for Cream

Ingredients

2 cups strawberries
2 cups sugar

Directions

Prepare

Mash the strawberries until smooth.
Combine with sugar and mix well.

Store

Transfer to jars and cover with paper.
Store in a cool place; it will keep for several months.

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, color, and bulk of the preserve.
Sugar: Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it by reducing available water for spoilage.

“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.