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Jane E. Hassler cookbook, June 1857
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Peach Butter Pare your Peaches and put them on the fire with water enough to cover them, and let them boil soft; when soft enough, put 1 lb of sugar to 3 lbs of Peaches, and then commence to stir. The peaches must be weighed before they are cooked. If not sweet enough you can add more sugar. You can add spices, if you like. Pine Apple Marmalade Take the largest, ripest, and most perfect pine apples. Pare them and cut out whatever blemishes you may find, Weigh each pine-apple, balancing the other scale with an equal quantity of the best double-refined loaf sugar, finely powered. Grate the pine-apples on a large dish, omitting the hard core in the centre of each. Put the grated pine-apple and the sugar into a preserving - kettle mixing them thouroughly. Set it over a moderate fire, and boil and skim it well, stiring it also at times. After the scum has ceased to appear stir till the marmalade is done, which will generally be in half an hour after it has come to a boil; but if not clear and bright in that time, continue to
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Peach Butter Pare your Peaches and put them on the fire with water enough to cover them, and let them boil soft; when soft enough, put 1 lb of sugar to 3 lbs of Peaches, and then commence to stir. The peaches must be weighed before they are cooked. If not sweet enough you can add more sugar. You can add spices, if you like. Pine Apple Marmalade Take the largest, ripest, and most perfect pine apples. Pare them and cut out whatever blemishes you may find, Weigh each pine-apple, balancing the other scale with an equal quantity of the best double-refined loaf sugar, finely powered. Grate the pine-apples on a large dish, omitting the hard core in the centre of each. Put the grated pine-apple and the sugar into a preserving - kettle mixing them thouroughly. Set it over a moderate fire, and boil and skim it well, stiring it also at times. After the scum has ceased to appear stir till the marmalade is done, which will generally be in half an hour after it has come to a boil; but if not clear and bright in that time, continue to
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