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Preserving Fruits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Preserving Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drop ripe tomatoes into hot water for 1 minute to loosen the skin.

  2. Remove the skin from the tomatoes.

  3. Boil the tomatoes with coarse sea salt, without adding water, until cooked as desired.

  4. Scald your jars to prepare for filling.

  5. Seal jars with a cork dipped in melted beeswax, ensuring no air can enter.

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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