Name: To Preserve Fruit and Flowers the Whole Year, Without Spoiling
Ingredients: 1 pound of nitre; 2 pounds of bole armontaci; 3 pounds of clean common sand; unripe fruit with stalks

To Preserve Fruit and Flowers the Whole Year, Without Spoiling

Ingredients

1 pound of nitre
2 pounds of bole armontaci
3 pounds of clean common sand
unripe fruit with stalks

Directions

Mix the nitre, bole armontaci, and clean common sand together.
In dry weather, take unripe fruit, keeping the stalks intact.
Put the fruit one by one into the mixture.
Store the mixture in a cool, dry 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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To Preserve Fruit and Flowers the Whole Year, Without Spoiling