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Brandy Peaches

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Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. Peaches
  4. Brandy

Method

  1. Prick the peaches with a needle, put them into a kettle with cold water, scald them until sufficiently soft to be penetrated with a straw.
  2. Take half a pound of sugar to every pound of peach;
  3. make the syrup with the sugar, and while it is a little warm, mix two-thirds as much of white brandy with it, put the fruit into jars, and pour the syrup over it.
  4. The late white clingstones are the best to use.
  5. Peaches (not very rich).

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Kettle
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.