Name: To Keep Worms From Dried Fruit
Ingredients: dried fruit; clean linen or cotton bag

To Keep Worms From Dried Fruit

Ingredients

dried fruit
clean linen or cotton bag

Directions

Place your dried fruit in a steamer over a pot of boiling water, covered tightly.
When thoroughly heated, tie the fruit immediately in a clean linen or cotton bag.
Hang the bag up to keep the fruit safe from worms.

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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To Keep Worms From Dried Fruit