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Apricots in Vinegar

From The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves, 1902

Repeat the process after a few days to ensure preservation.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apricots in vinegar. — Boil three quarters of a pint of best vinegar with 21b. of sugar ; after the latter is thoroughly dissolved, skim it well, and lay in the apricots, peeled, halved and stoned ; let them get thoroughly hot, then drain them from the pickle and pack them in jars, strewing them as you pack them, with |oz. coarsely pounded and mixed cinnamon and cloves between the layers of fruit ; then boil up the vinegar drained from them with a few Jamaica pep- pers

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