Sweet Pickle Peaches, No. 2

Ingredients

• one gallon of good apple vinegar
• eight pounds of sugar
• half teacupful of cloves
• three sticks cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Peel half bushel of clingstone peaches, almost ripe; one gallon of good apple vinegar, eight pounds of sugar, half teacupful of cloves, and three sticks cinnamon.

2. 2

   Boil the vinegar and spices together five minutes; put in the peaches, let them get hot through, remove from fire and place in self-sealing jars, if convenient; if not, seal the jars with brown paper (three layers), and thick flour paste in which has been put several drops of carbolic acid.

3. 3

   The latter drives away insects.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Pickle Peaches, No. 2 Peel half bushel of clingstone peaches, almost ripe ; one gallon of good apple vinegar, eight pounds of sugar, half teacupful of cloves, and three sticks cinnamon

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