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Pickles And Preserves. Part 3 |
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This section is from the book "Christopher House Guild Cook Book", by Christopher House Guild. Also available from Amazon: The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life.
6 oranges and 3 lemons unpeeled; cut as thin as possible cross-wise with sharp knife. Remove all seeds. To 1 pint sliced fruit add 1 1/2 pints water and boil 1/2 hour. Let stand 24 hours. To each pint cooked fruit add 1 1/2 pints granulated sugar and boil 1/2 hour. Cool a little to see if jellies, if not cook 10 minutes more. Take from fire and when partly cool fill tumblers. - Mrs. Snyder
6 lbs. Damson plums, after pits removed 6 lbs. sugar 2 lbs. English walnuts chopped
2 lbs. seeded raisins
Juice 2 lemons and grated rinds Juice 4 oranges, rind of 2
Boil until very thick. - A. L. Miller
3 dozen oranges 11/2 dozen lemons
7 quarts water 24 lbs. sugar
Scrub oranges and lemons clean with a brush, then slice very thin with sharp knife into stone jars (cut across few times before slicing). Put in water and let soak over night. Then boil from 2 to 3 hours. Add sugar and boil .3/4 hour. Put in glasses. - Mrs. A. B. Lord
12 oranges 12 lbs. sugar
Juice 3 lemons 5 quarts water
Use bitter oranges during the month of March.
Cut oranges very thin, lengthwise, cover with water (be careful to measure water), let stand over night and in morning add rest of 5 quarts water, boil until soft, about 2 1/2 hours; then add sugar and boil 1/2 hour longer.
- Mrs. J. A. McLcod
6 lbs. grapes cooked soft and rubbed through the colander. Add 4 lbs. white sugar and cook 20 minutes, then add 2 lbs. raisins seeded and chopped, also the thin yellow rind of 4 large oranges chopped very fine. Cook until it jellies. Cherries or plums can be used in place of grapes.
- Anna Rew Gross
Pare and slice, without wetting, 4 lbs. unripe tomatoes, give them a slow boil for several hours until a large portion of the water has evaporated, add for each pound tomatoes 3/4 lb- sugar and 2 sliced lemons. Boil for 1 hour longer. - Mrs. Snyder
Wash well 1 large grape fruit, 2 oranges, and 2 lemons. Cut the oranges and lemons into quarters and the grape fruit into eighths. Remove the seeds and tough centers, then slice thin with a sharp knife. When all is sliced, add 3 times as much water as there is fruit and let stand until the next day. Put over the fire and cook 20 minutes, then measure and add an equal amount of granulated sugar and boil about 20 minutes longer, or until it will jelly. When done, pour into glasses.
7 lbs. cherries
4 lbs. white sugar
1 pint strong vinegar
1 tablespoon whole cloves
2 tablespoons stick cinnamon A pinch ground mace
Put the fruit into a kettle with alternate layers of sugar. Heat slowly to boiling point; add vinegar and spices and boil 5 minutes. Take out the fruit with a skimmer and spread upon dishes to cool. Boil the syrup until thick; pack the fruit in glass jars and pour the syrup on boiling hot. - A. L. D.
 
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