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Strawberry Preserves

A sweet preserve made by cooking strawberries with sugar and setting them in jars.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the strawberries carefully, avoiding bruising.

  2. Combine the strawberries and sugar in a pot.

Cook the strawberries

  1. Cook over medium heat for 25 to 30 minutes.

  2. Remove the strawberries from the pot.

Dry and make the syrup

  1. Spread the strawberries on flat dishes in the sun.

  2. Boil the syrup until thick and clear.

  3. Pour the hot syrup over the strawberries.

Jar and store

  1. Transfer the strawberries and syrup to jars.

  2. Store the jars.

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 body, flavor and color that the preserve is built from.
Granulated sugar
Draws out moisture and forms a thick syrup that sweetens and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Boil the syrup until thick and clear. The syrup must reach a high enough sugar concentration to thicken and keep the fruit preserved. Stopping too early leaves it thin and watery, while boiling too long can turn it dark or cause crystallization.

“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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