Btrawberrt Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Remove the stalks from the strawberries and weigh them.
Cook the jam
Boil the strawberries for 35 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add 3 lbs of finely beaten sugar for every pound of fruit, then mix well off the heat.
Boil the mixture quickly for another 25 minutes.
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, flavour and pectin-bearing body that the jam sets from.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jam and helps it thicken and set while preserving it.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture quickly for another 25 minutes. Sugar must be fully dissolved before this boil, so the jam reaches the high concentration needed to gel. Boiling hard and fast keeps the set reliable and limits overcooking that dulls fresh fruit flavour.
“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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