Preserving Fruit

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Total: 480 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
For preserving
Instructions (12)
  1. Prepare the fruit: it must be full-grown, not too ripe, and gathered on a fine day. Carefully pick it.
  2. Place the fruit into clean and perfectly dry, wide-mouthed glass bottles.
  3. Tie pieces of bladder over the tops of the bottles.
  4. Stand the bottles in a large pot, copper, or boiler, with cold water reaching to their necks.
  5. Kindle a fire under the pot and let the water boil.
  6. As the bladders begin to rise and puff, prick them.
  7. As soon as the water boils, extinguish the fire and let the bottles remain in the water until they are cold.
  8. The next day, remove the bladders.
  9. Strew a thick layer of pounded sugar over the fruit.
  10. Hold two or three lighted matches in the neck of each bottle for a few moments until they have filled the bottle neck with gas, and before they go out, remove them very quickly.
  11. Instantly cork the bottle closely.
  12. Dip the corked bottle in bottle cement.
Original Text
II. 1543. INGREDIENTS.—Any kind of fresh fruit, such as currants, cherries, gooseberries, all kinds of plums, &c.; wide-mouthed glass bottles, new corks to fit them tightly. Mode.—The fruit must be full-grown, not too ripe, and gathered on a fine day. Let it be carefully picked and put into the bottles, which must be clean and perfectly dry. Tie over the tops of the bottles pieces of bladder; stand the bottles in a large pot, copper, or boiler, with cold water to reach to their necks; kindle a fire under, let the water boil, and as the bladders begin to rise and puff, prick them. As soon as the water boils, extinguish the fire, and let the bottles remain where they are, to become cold. The next day remove the bladders, and strew over the fruit a thick layer of pounded sugar; fit the bottles with corks, and let each cork lie close at hand to its own bottle. Hold for a few moments, in the neck of the bottle, two or three lighted matches, and when they have filled the bottle neck with gas, and before they go out, remove them very quickly; instantly cork the bottle closely, and dip it in bottle cement. Time.—Altogether about 8 hours.
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