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Peach Pulp

A preserved fruit product made from boiled peaches.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Peach Pulp

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pit the peaches and boil them in 1 quart of water for 4 minutes.

Can and process

  1. Can the mixture and process it.

  2. For double gallons, process in boiling water for 3 hours.

  3. For gallons, process for 45 minutes at 225°F (107°C).

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

Peaches
Supply the fruit, flavor and body of the pulp.

The step that matters

Matching the processing time to the container size. Larger containers need longer processing so heat reaches the centre of the pulp. A time set for a smaller container may leave the centre under-heated.

“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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