Canned Peaches

Ingredients

• eight tablespoons of sugar
• enough cold water to fill the jar
• a board into a flat bottom boiler

Method

1. 1

   Peel the fruit, and put it in the jar.

2. 2

   To each one-quart can take eight tablespoons of sugar dissolved in enough cold water to fill the jar.

3. 3

   Place a board into a flat bottom boiler, set the jars of fruit on this, placing the glass lids on, and put enough cold water in the boiler to reach two-thirds up the can.

4. 4

   Allow it to boil twenty minutes, remove the jars, and if they are not full of syrup, fill them with hot water; then put on the rubbers, and screw the lids down tightly.

5. 5

   Turn each can upside down, to be sure to prevent leakage.

6. 6

   Keep in a dark, cool place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Canned Peaches. — Peel the fruit, and put it in the jar. To each one-quart can take eight table- spoons of sugar dissolved in enough cold water to fill the jar. Place a board into a flat bottom boiler

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