Mrs Beetons Jams and Preserves Revisited

To Bottle Fresh Fruit with Sugar

(Very Useful In Winter)

Any Kind of Fresh Fruit
To each 1.1lt (2 pints) Bottle allow:
110g (4oz) Sugar

Let the fruit be gathered in dry weather.
Pick the fruit carefully and drop into clean and very dry 1.1lt (2 pints) sterilised glass bottles, sprinkling over the above ratio of sugar to each 1.1lt (2 pints).
Cover the bottles and place in a saucepan of cold water up to their necks, with small hay wisps round them, to prevent the bottles from knocking together.
Heat the water gradually to boil and let it simmer gently until the fruit in the bottles is reduced by nearly one third.
Turn off the heat and let the bottles stand in the water until it is perfectly cold.
Take them out, cover with airtight lids.
Store in a dry place.

Time: About 1 hour from the time the water commences to boil.

TO BOTTLE FRESH FRUIT WITH SUGAR

(Very useful in Winter)

1544. INGREDIENTS - Any kind of fresh fruit; to each quart bottle allow 1/4 lb. of pounded sugar.

Mode - Let the fruit be gathered in dry weather. Pick it carefully, and drop it into clean and very dry quart glass bottles, sprinkling over it the above proportion of pounded sugar to each quart. Put the corks in the bottles, and place them in a copper of cold water up to their necks, with small hay-wisps round them, to prevent the bottles from knocking together. Light the fire under, bring the water gradually to boil, and let it simmer gently until the fruit in the bottles is reduced nearly one third. Extinguish the fire, and let the bottles remain in the water until it is perfectly cold; then take them out, make the corks secure, and cover them with melted resin or wax.

Time - About 1 hour from the time the water commences to boil.

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Mrs Beetons Jams and Preserves Revisited

To Bottle Fresh Fruit with Sugar

(Very Useful In Winter)

Mrs Beeton
Recipes