Preserving and Jelly Making
Ingredients
Directions
Combine 1 pint of sugar and 1 pint of water in a saucepan.
Stir over heat until the sugar dissolves.
Bring the mixture to a boil and boil for 5 minutes or longer for a richer syrup.
Use 1 quart of syrup for each quart of large fruit and ⅔ pint of syrup for each quart of small 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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