Canned Peaches (Prize Competition)

Ingredients

• fruit of uniform size and shape
• a thin sharp silver fruit knife
• covering top with sugar

Method

1. 1

   Peel peaches, drop into water to prevent darkening, pack in can, fill with syrup, screw on covers, and boil for fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

fruit of uniform size and shape and all perfect. Peel with a thin sharp sil- ver fruit knife, which does not discolor, dropping as soon as pared into an earthen vessel of water to prevent tne air from darkening them. As soon as fruit enough for one can is pared put up by lay- ing piece by piece in the can, turning the inside of halves from which stones were removed^ outward, which gives a handsome ap- pearance, and fill up with syrup as clear as crystal, placing tne cheese-cloth strainer over the filler. Screw on covers without the rubbers, stand cans in wash-boiler on slab or a board perforated with holes, or a folded towel with a towel between them (some use straw or hay), fill up with cold water to withintwo or three inches of top of cans, graduallv bring to a boil and boil fifteen minutes. Draw to back of stove to let steam pass off, roll the hand in a towel, lift cans 100 CANNED FRUITS. out and place on hot platter. Take off covers and let out air bubbles with a knife, as directed in preface. The fruit will settle some and the contents of one or two cans will be needed to fill up the others ; . prepare for this purpose nearly a fourth more cans. Fill up, put on ruboers, seal and put away according to previous directions. The same process may oe used for canning all kinds of fruit. Canned Peaches. — Prepare peaches and weigh out half a pound best loaf sugar to each pound fruit. Sprinkle a little sugar in a deep earthen bowl, put in a layer of peaches, then one of sugar, and so alternate until closely packed, covering top with sugar

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.