Peaches (Preserved)
From Recipes for the million, 1891
Serves 8
Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 166. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
PEACHES (PRESERVED). — Wipe and pick the fruit, then make a thin syrup with a quarter of their weight of fine sugar in powder, sufficient to cover them, and boil them in this till they are soft to the finger- nail. Have ready a rich syrup, and when they are taken from the fire add this, with the same quantity of hot brandy as syrup. Put the fruit into jars, place a piece of paper saturated with sweet oil over the fruit, and cover the tops of the jars with white paper dipped in gum-water
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