This section is from the book "The Laurel Health Cookery", by Evora Bucknum Perkins. Also available from Amazon: The Laurel Health Cookery.
If berries are very dry, add a little water, heat, strain; use 1/2 - 3/4 as much sugar as of juice.
4 qts. berries, 1 cup water; cook and strain, add 2 tablespns. of lemon juice to each pint of juice. Cook 20 m., add 3/4 as much sugar, hot, as of juice, boil up well, pour into glasses.
Wild grapes are preferable, but underripe Concords, Catawbas, and other varieties may be used.
Proceed as for currant jelly, using only 2/3 as much sugar as of juice. If necessary, boil 5 m. after sugar is added. Use no water with cultivated grapes, but with underripe wild grapes, 1/2 cup of water may be added to each quart of stemmed grapes.
2 qts. berries, 3/4 qt. water; stew, mash, strain; boil 20 m. for each quart of juice, add 1 qt. of hot sugar, boil 2-3 minutes.
Wash quinces, cut into quarters or eighths, remove part or all of the seeds, use 1/3 - 1/2 as much water as of fruit and 1/2 as much sugar as of juice. Cook and finish as apple jelly.
1/3 - 1/2 apple juice with quince is better.
 
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