Sweet Pickles

Ingredients

• Eight pounds of fruit
• four pounds of best brown sugar
• one quart of vinegar
• one cup of mixed whole spices
• stick cinnamon
• Tie the spices in a bag

Method

1. 1

   Boil the vinegar and sugar with the spices in a bag.

2. 2

   Skim well, then add the fruit.

3. 3

   Cook for ten minutes until scalded and tender.

4. 4

   Skim out the fruit into stone jars.

5. 5

   Boil the syrup for five minutes longer and pour over the fruit.

6. 6

   Repeat pouring off the syrup and boiling down for three mornings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 236. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Pickles. Eight pounds of fruit, four pounds of best hrovm sugar^ one quart of vinegar^ and one cup of mixed whole spices^ — stick cinnamon^ cassia huds^ allspice^ and cloves ; less of the latter than of the former. Tie the spices in a bag

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.