Name: To Keep Peaches
Ingredients: fine ripe juicy free-stone peaches; bees-wax; rosin; finely powdered brick-dust

To Keep Peaches

Ingredients

fine ripe juicy free-stone peaches
bees-wax
rosin
finely powdered brick-dust

Directions

Pare the peaches and remove the stones with a skewer, keeping them whole or cut in half.
Place the peaches in flat stone jars.
Seal the jars with a mixture of melted bees-wax and rosin.
Thicken the mixture with enough finely powdered brick-dust to achieve a sealing-wax consistency.
Spread the hot cement over the sealed jars.

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.