Skip to content

Apple and Peach Conserve

A historical recipe from Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking, by Anonymous.

A historical recipe

Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking, by Anonymous. Project Gutenberg eBook #26558.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: home canning or sealing in jars, preserving or pickling. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.

Source and licence

From Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking, by Anonymous. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #26558 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26558). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

Read the original Public domain in the USA

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

United States. Associated with United States by the book is about Pennsylvania Dutch cookery (Cooking -- Pennsylvania); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.
  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Create an image with FoodStudio Made by our AI generator from your own prepaid SecondMem credits. We keep no picture from the source.

Ingredients

Method

  1. 2 cups apples, chopped 2 cups peaches, chopped juice of 2 lemons 3 cups sugar Use tart unpeeled apples and firm ripe peaches, cut into small pieces.
  2. Combine with lemon juice and sugar.
  3. Cook slowly until the apple is transparent (about 20 minutes).
  4. Pour into sterilized glasses, seal.
  5. Makes 7 6-oz.
  6. glasses.