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Kumquat Preserves

Ingredients

• 1 quart fruit to 1 pint sugar

Instructions

Cut the Kumquats into halves, pick out seeds, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. In the meantime have your syrup boiling, 1 pint sugar to 3 pints water.

Drain fruit and put in syrup and simmer slowly for 1 hour. Take out fruit and continue to simmer syrup until it begins to get thick.

Put the fruit into syrup--place preserving kettle in pot of boiling water and let them, or let the water continue boiling until syrup is thick as you like it. Put 1/4 teaspoon fine salt in first water, as it adds a fine flavor. Grate stem off skin deep.

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Source

The Suffrage Cook Book (1915).