Name: Pickles and Preserves
Ingredients: fruit (fresh and undamaged); sugar (warmed but not dissolved)

Pickles and Preserves

Ingredients

fruit (fresh and undamaged)
sugar (warmed but not dissolved)

Directions

Choose a dry, sunny day to prepare your fruit.
Wash and inspect the fruit, discarding any damaged pieces.
In a pan, bring the fruit to a boil by itself.
Once boiling, add the warmed sugar.
Boil the fruit and sugar together for 10 to 15 minutes, but no longer than 20 minutes.
To test for doneness, drop a little jam on a plate; if it jellies within a minute, it's ready.

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.