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To Preserve Fruit

A method of preserving fruit by boiling jars in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Preserve Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick your fruit on a dry day.

  2. Place the fruit into stone jars.

Seal and boil

  1. Tie each jar with two separate bladders and two pieces of twine; tie the first bladder loosely and the second tightly.

  2. Set the jars in a boiler filled with cold water.

  3. Boil the water and let the jars continue for 30 minutes after it starts boiling.

Store

  1. Remove the jars and place them in a cold, 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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