American Southern

Pickled Peaches

Name: Pickled Peaches
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 1 cups vinegar; 4 lb sugar; 1 each peaches; 1 each cloves

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 27. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

16Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

1 cups vinegar
4 lb sugar
1 each peaches
1 each cloves

Instructions

1
To one gallon vinegar add four lbs sugar; boil and scum.
2
Take clingstone peaches, fully ripe, rub off the down.
3
Stick into each three or four cloves, put into a stone jar, pour over them the boiling liquid, cover the jar closely, set in a cool place for a week or two.
4
Pour off the liquor and boil as before, then return it to the fruit boiling hot; cover carefully for future use.

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