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Bottled Apricots

Apricots are preserved by placing them in clean bottles, sealing, and steaming.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Bottled Apricots

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Gather apricots in the morning of the day you plan to preserve them.

  2. Cut the apricots in half or quarters.

Bottle and seal

  1. Place the cut apricots into clean bottles immediately.

  2. Cork the bottles tightly and secure with wire.

Steam to preserve

  1. Steam the bottles the same day to preserve the fruit.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Apricots
The fruit itself, which is preserved in halves or quarters with its flesh and flavor kept intact.

The step that matters

Cork the bottles tightly. An airtight seal keeps air and spoilage microbes out of the jar, and the later steaming heat helps destroy microbes already present, so a loose cork can let the fruit spoil.

“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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