Peach Butter

Ingredients

• quart of peaches
• one and one-half pounds of sugar
• sufficient water to boil them soft

Method

1. 1

   Pare ripe peaches and put them in a preserving kettle with sufficient water to boil them soft; then sift through a colander, removing the stones.

2. 2

   To each quart of peaches, add one and one-half pounds of sugar, and boil very slowly for one hour.

3. 3

   Stir often and do not let them burn.

4. 4

   Put in stone or glass jars, and keep in a cool place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 285. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEACH BUTTER. Pare ripe peaches and put them in a preserving Kettle, with suflBcient water to boil them soft ; then sift through a colander, removing the stones. To each quart of peaches put one and one-half pounds of sugar

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