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Preservation To Preserve Apricots

to preserve apricots
(from Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery, by Eliza Leslie, 1838)

Ingredients:

ripe apricots​
1 lb. loaf-sugar per lb. of apricots​

Instructions:

Take ripe apricots; scald them, peel them, cut them in half, and extract the stones. Then weigh the apricots, and to each pound allow a pound of loaf-sugar. Put them into a tureen or large pan, in alternate layers of apricots and sugar; cover them, and let them stand all night. Next morning put all together into a preserving kettle, and boil them moderately a quarter of an hour. Then take them out, spread them on dishes, and let them stand till next day. Then boil them again in the same syrup another quarter of an hour. Afterwards, spread them out to cool, put them into glass jars, and pour the syrup over them.​
Peaches may be preserved in the same manner. Also large plums or green gages; but to the plums you must allow additional sugar.​
 
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I remember that my husbands Aunt Helen would bring apricots, fresh to the July 4th picnic we would host. They were sooo good! When I was a child, we would sometimes have canned apricot for dessert, as well as plums..it was a real treat!
 
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