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Peaches for Common Use

Ingredients

• 6 pounds of cut peaches
• 3 pounds of the best brown sugar
• handful of peach leaves

Instructions

Take ripe free-stone peaches; pare, stone, and quarter them. Strew the sugar among the peaches, and set them away. Next morning add peach leaves, put the whole into a preserving kettle, and boil it slowly about an hour and three quarters, or two hours, skimming it well. When cold, put it up in jars and keep it for pies, or for any common purpose.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).