To Preserve Berries Whole

Ingredients

• two pounds of fruit
• a pound of sugar
• one cupful of water

Method

1. 1

   Buy the fruit when not too ripe, pick over immediately, wash if absolutely necessary and put in glass jars, filling each one about two-thirds full.

2. 2

   Put in the preserving kettle a pound of sugar and one cupful of water for every two pounds of fruit, and let it come slowly to a boil.

3. 3

   Pour this syrup into the jars over the berries, filling them up to the brim; then set the jars in a pot of cold water on the stove, and let the water boil and the fruit become scalding hot.

4. 4

   Now take them out and seal perfectly tight.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 273. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO PRESERVE BERRIES WHOLE. (Excellent.) Buy the fruit when not too ripe, pick over immediately, wash if abso- lutely necessary and put in glass jars, filling each one about two-thirds full. Put in the preserving kettle a pound of sugar and one cupful of water for every two pounds of fruit

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