Spiced Peaches

Ingredients

• Seven pounds of fruit
• five cents worth of cloves
• ten cents worth of cinnamon
• four pounds brown sugar
• one quart vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Put vinegar and sugar into a kettle and let them come to a boil, skim well, then add the spice tied in their sacks; add fruit.

2. 2

   Boil slowly until the fruit is soft enough to run a straw through.

3. 3

   Put into cans and seal.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 13 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spiced Peaches. One peck peaches, two quarts vinegar, three nutmegs, one tablespoon cloves, one tablespoon cinnamon, one quart sugar. After paring peaches place in crock, strewing spices through them; boil vinegar and sugar together and pour over them; let stand one day, then pour the liquid off and bring to a boil again; pour over the fruit and let stand another day; do this three days in succession, the fourth day boil all together twenty minutes. They are then ready to bottle and seal. Mrs. B. F. Moon. Spiced Peaches. Five pounds peaches, three pounds loaf sugar, one quart cider vinegar, two or three cloves in each peach or a small piece of mace. Boil soft and can hot. Spiced Peaches. Seven pounds of fruit, five cents worth of cloves, ten cents worth of cinnamon, four pounds brown sugar, one quart vinegar

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