Mrs Beetons Jams and Preserves Revisited
Preserved Strawberries in Wine
Strawberries
To every 1.1lt (2 pints) Bottle allow:
110g (4oz) Caster Sugar
Sherry or Madeira
Let the fruit be gathered in fine weather and used as soon as picked.
Have some dry sterilised glass bottles ready with tight fitting lids.
Remove the stalks from the strawberries.
Drop them into the sterilised bottles, sprinkled with the caster sugar in the above ratio.
When the fruit reaches to the neck of the bottle, fill with sherry or Madeira.
Seal with airtight lids.
Seasonable: Make this in June or July.
PRESERVED STRAWBERRIES IN WINE
1595. INGREDIENTS - To every quart bottle allow 1/4 lb. of finely-pounded loaf sugar; sherry or Madeira.
Mode - Let the fruit be gathered in fine weather, and used as soon as picked. Have ready some perfectly dry glass bottles, and some nice soft corks or bungs. Pick the stalks from the strawberries, drop them into the bottles, sprinkling amongst them pounded sugar in the above proportion, and when the fruit reaches to the neck of the bottle, fill up with sherry or Madeira. Cork the bottles down with new corks, and dip them into melted resin.
Seasonable - Make this in June or July.
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