Name: Jam and Fruit Jelly
Ingredients: ripe fruit; sugar

Jam and Fruit Jelly

Ingredients

ripe fruit
sugar

Directions

Gather ripe fruit in dry weather, ensuring it is not overripe or crushed.
Boil the fruit with sugar until it breaks down.
To keep fruit whole, first make a syrup and pour it over the fruit, allowing it to cool.
Repeat pouring the syrup over the fruit several times, boiling the syrup each time.
Finally, boil the whole mixture carefully to complete the jam.

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.