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To Preserve Siberian Crab-apples

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 2

Syrup can be boiled down to jelly.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Preserve Siberian Crab-apples. These beautiful little apples, hardly larger than the finest cherries, make a highly flavored preserve and ex- quisitely colored jelly. Take a peck of the apples, with their stems still attached, weigh them, and allow three- quarters of a pound of sugar to one of fruit ; put the ap- ples on in enough water almost to cover them, and let them parboil; then take out the apples and spread them on dishes to cool ; add the sugar to the water, with the thinly-pared rind of four lemons

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