To Can Berries

Ingredients

• each quart of fruit
• one table-spoonful to each quart of fruit

Method

1. 1

   Take strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, cherries, or any small fruit, pick over carefully; heat slowly to boiling in a large kettle.

2. 2

   When they begin to boil, add sugar in the proportion of one tablespoonful to each quart of fruit.

3. 3

   Boil all together for fifteen minutes, and put hot into well-heated cans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO CAN BERRIES. Take strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, cher- ries, or any small fruit, pick over carefully ; heat slowly to boiling in a large kettle. When they begin to boil, add sugar in the proportion of one table-spoonful to each quart of fruit

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