Preserved Barberries

Ingredients

• a quart of fruit
• a pint of molasses
• half molasses and half sugar
• hard sweet apples

Method

1. 1

   Stem the barberries and drop them into boiling molasses or a mixture of molasses and sugar.

2. 2

   Boil for 10-15 minutes, skim out, and boil the syrup slowly for another 10-15 minutes.

3. 3

   Add quartered apples after skimming out the berries and boil until cooked.

4. 4

   Return the berries to the mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Preserved Barberries. Stem the barberries, then drop them either into molasses that has been boiling ten minutes (at the rate of a quart of fruit to a pint of molasses) or in half molasses and half sugar, and then boil ten to fifteen minutes, and skim out, and boil sirup slowly about ten or fifteen minutes longer; then take off, and drop berries in. The addition of hard sweet apples

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