American Southern

Preserved Peaches

Name: Preserved Peaches
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 5 lb sugar; 5 lb peaches

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.

20 minPrep Time

60 minCook Time

16Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

5 lb sugar
5 lb peaches

Instructions

1
Five lbs sugar to five lbs peaches; while the syrup is making prepare your fruit.
2
Make the syrup of half the sugar, put the peaches in the boiling syrup, cook about ten minutes; dip them out and lay on platters until the next day; drain off the juice from them, putting it with the remainder of the sugar into the kettle and boiling to a thick syrup before adding the fruit, which must cook a few minutes, then lift them out carefully and put in jars; boil the syrup until waxy, then turn over the peaches.

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