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Preserved Sorrel

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Preserved Sorrel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and trim the sorrel.

  2. Put the sorrel in a saucepan with 1 quart of water.

  3. Set it on a brisk fire, stirring until melted.

  4. Drain the sorrel in a colander and let it stand for 1 hour.

  5. Rub it through a fine sieve.

  6. Put the sorrel in quart tin cans or jars.

  7. Seal them tightly and boil in a hot water bath for 1.5 hours.

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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