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Canned Fruit Juices

A homemade canned fruit juice made by pressing fruit, adding sugar, boiling, and canning in glass jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Canned Fruit Juices

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Press out the juice from the fruit and strain it through a flannel bag.

  2. For each pint of juice, add 1 cup of white granulated sugar.

Boil and can

  1. Put the mixture in a granite kettle and bring it to a boil.

  2. Can the hot juice in small glass jars and seal tightly.

Store

  1. Store in a dry, dark place.

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

Sound ripe fruit
Provides the juice and most of the fruit flavor in the finished product.
White granulated sugar
Adds sweetness and body to the juice and helps it keep longer once canned.

“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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