This section is from the book "A Third Pot-Pourri", by C. W. Earle. Also available from Amazon: A Third Pot-Pourri.
Put clean cold water into the bottles, and sink them in hot water till the water boils in the bottls; cover up top and let it get cold. Put the fruit fresh picked into a hot oven for a few minutes, take out and cover up till cold. Then drop it into the water in bottles; no sugar, nothing; cork and seal down at once.
 
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