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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. one pound of sugar
  2. two pounds of fruit
  3. one cup water
  4. Berries

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. Fruit should not be too ripe.
  2. Pick over as soon as gathered ;
  3. wash, if absolutely necessary, and put in glass jars, until each is two-thirds full.
  4. Put into a porcelain kettle one cup water and one pound of sugar, for every two pounds of fruit, and let come slowly to a boil.
  5. Pour this syrup into the jars over the berries, filling them to the brim;
  6. then set the jars in a pot of cold water on the stove and let the water boil and the fruit become scalding hot;
  7. then lift them out and seal perfectly tight.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Kettle
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Credit

From The West Bend cook book (1915), printed page 396, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/westbendcookbook00lake

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.