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Blackberry Jam

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  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of fruit
  2. a pound of brown sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Allow three quarters of a pound of brown sugar to a pound of fruit.
  2. Boil the fruit half an hour, then add the sugar, and boil all together ten minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1846). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #54965 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54965). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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.