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To Preserve Fruit Without Sugar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Fruit Without Sugar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the fruit in a clean pan until soft, ensuring no sugar remains.

  2. Burn brimstone to remove all air from the cask.

  3. Pour the boiled fruit into the cask until full.

  4. Place the bung in the cask and set it aside for 1-2 days.

  5. Bore a small hole in the cask with a gimlet to release air.

  6. Immediately drive a small wooden peg into the hole.

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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