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To Can Fruit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Can Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the fruit in a large kettle with enough juice or water to cover it.

  2. Boil the cans and tops in a vessel of cold water until hot.

  3. Fill the hot cans with the hot fruit.

  4. Let the cans remain open until cool.

  5. Cut tissue paper to the size of the can and place it over the fruit.

  6. Fill the cans with juice and seal.

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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