Strawberry Preserves
From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884
Serves 8
Gather early-season strawberries for best results.
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Strawberry Preserves. Even while the fresh fruit may be had this preserve is in request. There are several ways of making it, but none, unfortunately, whereby the strawberry retains its lovely natural color. A mistake often made is to put off preserving straw- berries till the end of the season, while those that ripen in the early part of it are always larger and finer. Gather them, if possible, fresh from the vines, cap them, weigh them, and put them into a bowl, with an equal weight of loaf-sugar
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