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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • 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.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of fruit
  2. a pound of 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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Pare and slice the fruit.
  2. Make a syrup of half a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit;
  3. when the syrup boils, put in the fruit, and let it remain until a little tender.
  4. Fill the jars with the hot fruit, and pour on the syrup.
  5. To be kept in air-tight jars.
  6. Prepared in this way, much of the flavor of the fruit is preserved.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Credit

From Cather Historic Cookbook - Gulf City Cook Book 4913010, printed page 179, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gulf-city-cook-book-4913010

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.