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Preserving Fruit (New Mode)
A historical preserve from The White House cook book; a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home .. (1913). Use fruit in prime condition and perfectly dry. Stir every day with a clean wooden spoon kept for the purpose. Every sort of fruit may be used, beginning with strawberries and ending with plums.
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Original Historical Recipe
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Original Ingredients
- 1 quart white, preserving, fine Batavia brandy
- for every pound of fruit: three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar
Original Instructions
- 1
Put one quart of white, preserving, fine Batavia brandy into a two-gallon stone jar that has a tightly fitting top
- 2
Then for every pound of fruit, in prime condition and perfectly dry, which you put in the brandy, use three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar
- 3
stir every day so that the sugar will be dissolved, using a clean, wooden spoon kept for the purpose
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