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Strawberry Preserve

A preserve made by cooking strawberries with sugar and water until the syrup thickens.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Strawberry Preserve

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. In a kettle, combine the sugar and water over gentle heat, stirring until dissolved.

  2. Once boiling, add the strawberries and cook gently until they are uniformly colored when cut open.

Cool and jar

  1. Remove the strawberries with a skimmer and spread them on flat dishes to cool.

  2. Boil the syrup until it thickens.

  3. Place the cooled fruit into jars and pour the nearly cold syrup over it.

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 that becomes the preserve, holding their shape while cooking gently.
Sugar
Sweetens the preserve and thickens the syrup as it boils down.

The step that matters

Cooking the strawberries gently. Cooking the berries gently in the syrup keeps them whole and firm, because high heat or long boiling breaks down the fruit's pectin and cell walls.

“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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