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The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking

CHAPTER XII
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Put up _when cold_ in small jars, and paste paper over them.
JAMS.
Make sirup as directed above.

Use raspberries, strawberries, or any small fruit, and boil for half an hour.

Put up in small jars or tumblers; lay papers dipped in brandy on the fruit, and paste on covers, or use patent jelly-glasses.
MARMALADE.
Quinces make the best; but crab-apples or any sour apple are also good.
Poor quinces, unfit for other use, can be washed and cut in small pieces, coring, but not paring them.

Allow three-quarters of a pound of sugar and a teacupful of water to a pound of fruit, and boil slowly two hours, stirring and mashing it fine.

Strain through a colander, and put up in glasses or bowls.


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