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Strawberry Acid

A fermented strawberry liquid made with tartaric acid, water, strawberries, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Strawberry Acid

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate

  1. Dissolve the tartaric acid in the water.

  2. Add the strawberries and let the mixture stand for two days.

  3. Drain the liquid off.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. For every pint of liquid, add 1.5 pounds of sugar.

  2. Boil the mixture.

  3. Once cool, bottle the strawberry acid.

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

Tartaric acid
Supplies the sharp sour taste that defines the finished acid.
Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavor and aroma that the liquid carries.
Sugar
Balances the sourness with sweetness in the finished liquid.

“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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