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together two cups sugar and three eggs, and add one teaspoonful butter. Stir all together and boil to the consistency of strained honey. Strawberry Jam. — Take a quart of berries, mash with a potato masher, add one pint granulated sugar, and cook fast, stirring constantly, until of the desired consistency. Raspberry Jam. — To five pounds red berries add an equal quantity of granulated sugar. Mash the berries in a kettle, put in the sugar, let boil until it jellies upon a cold plate. Pineapple Preserves. — Pare, slice pineapples ; to every pound of fruit add one pound of sugar ; place in jars a layer of apple, then of sugar ; let stand over night ; take juice off of the fruit and boil until it thickens ; pour in the fruit and boil fifteen minutes ; take apples out of syrup to cool ; then put in jar and pour syrup over and seal. Quince Marmalade. — Stew as many apples as you wish to put with your quinces, and strain the juice as for jelly. Pare and core the quinces, put in a bowl and chop as fine as desired ; put in a vessel and cover with the apple juice, add a little water if necessary, and cook until the fruit is tender. Skim the fruit out carefully, strain and measure the juice ; add sugar as for jelly, and boil until almost jellied. Drop in the fruit and cook until it begins to jelly. Put in jelly glasses. Preserved Strawberries. — One large cup of sugar to one pint of berries. Add enough water to dissolve sugar, and boil to a thick syrup. Add berries, and boil rapidly fifteen minutes. Cook small quantity at a time. Preserved Rhubarb. — Cut as for pies, without peeling ; take Ihe same quantity of sugar as you have fruit, put a small piece of butter in the bottom of a porcelain or granite kettle ; place the sugar and rhubarb alternately in the kettle, place on the back of range and cook slowly, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved ; then cook more rapidly until preserved. Preserved Peaches, Pears, Plums. — Make fruit ready for preserving ; to each pound of fruit use three-fourths to one pound of sugar and one cup water, according to tartness of fruit, boil syrup from five to ten minutes, then put in fruit ; boil until fruit looks clear ; fill jars and close. Spiced Currants. — Make a syrup of three pounds of sugar, one pint vinegar, two tablespoonfuls each of cinnamon and cloves, one-half teaspoonful salt ; add six pounds of currants, and boil one-half hour. Spiced Peaches, Pears, and Sweet, Apples.— Take five pounds fruit, three pounds sugar, cloves and cinnamon to taste ; one pint cider vinegar ; have the syrup hot, cook until tender. Canned Strawberries. — Wash berries thoroughly before picking off stems ; weigh them. To each pound of berries allow onequarter pound of sugar. L,et them cook fifteen minutes ; after they come to a boil they are ready to can. Canned Peaches, Pears, and Quinces. — Prepare fruit for canning, place in kettle ; to each quart of fruit put four tablespoonfuls of sugar ; put in water to prevent burning, heat slowly to a boil, then l)oil three or four minutes, can and seal. Cook pears and quinces longer.