To Preserve Pineapple

Ingredients

• fine large pineapples
• three-quarters of a pound of sifted sugar

Method

1. 1

   Pare the pineapple, remove black specks, weigh the fruit, and combine with sugar in a preserving-kettle.

2. 2

   Boil gently for half an hour until clear, skimming well, then fill jars and set in a cool place until next day.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 132. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To preserve Pineapple. Procure fine large pineapples, pare them, and pick out with a flhiurp-pointed knife all the black specks, which you will see after paring them ; weigh the fruit, and allow three-quarters of a pound of sifled sugar to every pound of fruit ; pick the pine- apples to shreds with a fork, saving the juice as it drops; put all into the preserving-kettle together with the sugar, and boD gently for half an hour or longer until the fruit is perfectly dear; skimming well ; then fill your jars and set them in a cool place until next day ; then close them air-tight. *Oreen Oages. Wipe them, prick each one with a coarse carpet ^eedle, weigh them, allow a pound of sugar for every pound of I lit, put them in the preserving-kettle alternate layers of sugar ind fruit, set them back where they will warm but not cook ur il the sugar is dissolved, which it will soon do if the fruit is all pricked with the needle. When this is accomplished, set them over the fire, boil and skim until the fruit is clear, which will be in about shree-quarters of an hour ; fill your jars with the fruit, three parts frill, boil the syrup five minutes longer, unless it has alreadj thickened sufficiently, then pour over to fill the jars, set away in a oool place until next day, then cover closely. * Compote of Oranges. Peel eight fine large tart oranges, remove all the pulp, and ^vide them at every separation without breaking the dividing 276 COOKERY FROM EXPERIENCE. akin ; squeeze tie juice from four more oranges, and put it in t preserving-kettle with three-quarters of a pound of sifted sugar

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