Strawberries, Preserved in Wine

Ingredients

• Take the fruit when perfectly ripe and fresh
• four ounces of powdered sugar with each pound of fruit
• Pour in good sherry or madeira to cover the fruit

Method

1. 1

   Pick and pat strawberries into dry wide-mouthed bottles.

2. 2

   Sprinkle powdered sugar among the fruit and fill bottles to the neck with sherry or madeira.

3. 3

   Cork securely, wax down, and store in a cool dry place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1909. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Strawberries Preserved in Wine. • — Take the fruit when perfectly ripe and fresh; pick it, and pat it immediately into dry wide- STR ( 930 ) STEl mouthed bottles. Sprinkle amongst it four ounces of powdered sugar with each pound of fruit, and let the bottles be fiUed to the neck. Poirr in good sheriy or madeira to cover the fruit

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.