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Pie-Plant Preserves

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 2

Use an earthen bean pot for best results.

Presented as published in 1890. 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 The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 470. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pie-Plant Preserves. — Wash clean, but do not peel ; cut up an inch or two in length, put a layer in small jar, then a hiyer of sugar, another layer of pie-plant, then sugar, until the pan or crock is full, allowing pound sugar to pound pie-plant

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