This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Put the fruit in a jar with from half to a whole cup of water to a pint of fruit, cover and let stand on a trivet, in a pail of water brought slowly to the boiling point, half an hour or more, or until the juice flows freely. Pass through a cheesecloth, and thicken one pint of juice with half to a whole cup of sugar mixed with one or two teaspoonfuls of cornstarch. Cook from five to ten minutes, skimming as needed. The sugar is often used without the cornstarch.
Hull, wash, and drain a basket of ripe strawberries and press them through a ricer. Boil together three fourths cup of sugar and half a cup of water ten minutes; let cool, add the strawberry pulp and, if desired, half a teaspoonful of vanilla.
Boil together ten minutes half a cup of apricot marmalade, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and four tablespoonfuls of water; add the juice of half a lemon and pour over and around a chocolate Bavarian cream or a hot mould of brioche.
Boil one cup of granulated sugar and one third cup of water, without stirring, four or five minutes; add four (level) tablespoonfuls of currant jelly. As soon as the sauce boils again, add the juice of a lemon and strain through a fine sieve. If a very fine sauce be desired, add a handful of preserved or candied cherries.
Simmer one cup of stoned cherries, one cup of claret, two tablespoonfuls of currant jelly, the yellow peel of a lemon, an inch of cinnamon bark and one fourth cup of sugar, until reduced nearly one half; remove the cinnamon bark and lemon peel before serving.
Press the pulp of two bananas, the juice and pulp of an orange and one fourth cup of apricot marmalade through a sieve; add one fourth cup of sugar and heat over boiling water; when thoroughly scalded let cool and, before serving, add, at discretion, one tablespoonful, each, of maraschino and brandy. Serve with cold or iced desserts.
1 cup of sugar. The juice and pulp of four oranges. 1 cup of water. The juice of half a lemon. 1 teaspoonful of gelatine. 1/4 teaspoonful of vanilla extract. 3 tablespoonfuls of cold water.
Boil the sugar and water ten minutes; add the gelatine, softened in the cold water, let cool and strain into the fruit juice; add the extract, or cook a vanilla bean in the syrup. Cool before using.
 
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