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Strawberry Preserves

A sweet preserve made by cooking strawberries with sugar until the berries are cooked and the syrup thickens.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the berries

  1. Cook strawberries and sugar on the stove until the berries are cooked through.

  2. Skim out the berries.

Fill the jars

  1. Place the berries into jars, filling them a little more than half full.

Finish the syrup

  1. Cook the syrup until it almost sets like jelly when cold; test in a saucer.

  2. Add the berries back into the syrup.

  3. Lay the jars on their sides to allow the berries to mix thoroughly with the syrup.

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

Strawberries
Provide the fruit, flavor, and bulk of the preserves.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and concentrates the syrup so it can thicken and set while preserving the fruit.

The step that matters

Cook the syrup until it almost sets. Sugar syrup thickens as water evaporates and its concentration rises. Stopping too early leaves the preserves runny, while cooking too long makes them stiff and candied. A cold saucer test shows when it is ready.

“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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