To Bottle Fruit

Ingredients

• Any fresh fruit
• large-mouthed bottles
• new corks

Method

1. 1

   Secure the fruit not very ripe and picked on a fine day; have the bottles clean and dry, put in the fruit, cover with pieces of bladder tied securely, stand them in a boiler with cold water to the necks, put the boiler on the fire and allow to boil; as soon as the bladders begin to swell, pierce them with a large pin.

2. 2

   Now let the fire out and allow the bottles to stand until cold.

3. 3

   The following day remove the bladders and fill up the bottles with sugar.

4. 4

   Be careful to have the corks close at hand, and just before corking hold a couple of lighted matches in the mouth of the bottle, and before the gas has had time to escape, cork and cover with resin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Bottie Fruit—Ingredients—Any fresh fruit, large-mouthed bottles, new corks

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