Name: To Keep Apricots and Other Fruits All the Year
Ingredients: equal quantities of honey; equal quantities of water; fresh gathered fruits

To Keep Apricots and Other Fruits All the Year

Ingredients

equal quantities of honey
equal quantities of water
fresh gathered fruits

Directions

Prepare

Beat together equal parts of honey and water.
Pour the mixture into an earthen vessel.

Preserve and serve

Add the fresh fruits and cover tightly.
When ready to use, wash the fruits in cold water.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Honey: Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit by drawing out moisture and inhibiting spoilage.
Fresh fruits: Provide the fruit that is preserved and flavoured by the sweet syrup.

“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.