Fruit, To Bottle

Ingredients

• Currants, gooseberries, and other fruit may be thus preserved
• put them into wide-mouthed glass bottles

Method

1. 1

   After freeing them from stalks, put them into wide-mouthed glass bottles, and shake them that the bottles may be full; place the bottles, slightly corked, into a nearly cold oven for four or five hours.

2. 2

   When the fruit shrivels, remove it from the oven, and cork the bottles tightly and quickly, tying down securely with leather.

3. 3

   Keep in a dry place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 562. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit, To Bottle. — -Currants, gooseberries, and other fruit may be thus preserved. After freeing them from stalks, put them into wide- mouthed glass bottles, and shake them that the bottles may be full ; place the bottles, slightly corked, into a nearly cold oven for four or five hours

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