new method of making preserves
(from Southern Watchman Newspaper, of Athens, Georgia, September 9, 1863)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from Southern Watchman Newspaper, of Athens, Georgia, September 9, 1863)
Ingredients:
about 25 gallons of sorghum juice - "enough for 2-1/2 gallons of syrup"
(10 gallons of juice boils down to make 1 gallon of syrup)
1/2 bushel of damson plums
Instructions:
A gentleman of Jackson County, who has tried the experiment recently, informs us the best damson preserves he ever tasted can be made with sorghum syrup, as follows:
Put into a boiler juice enough to make 2 1/2 gallons of syrup - to this add, when it begins to thicken, or is half boiled down, half a bushel of plums. Boil until rather thicker than usual. Of course an iron vessel will not do.
This looks to be more of a commercial method. I'm not sure how many homeowners will have the resources to boil down 25 gallons of sorghum juice.
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