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Gingered Pears

Serves 4
📖 From Church Cookbook (Baltimore, 1908) (1908)

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Ingredients

  • • None 7 pounds fruit 1 pint water
  • • None 7 pounds sugar 3 lemons, juice and rind
  • • None 1 ounce green ginger root
  • • None Soak the ginger in the water over night. Cut up the ginger,

Instructions

Step 1. add it to the sugar and water in which the ginger was soaked,

Step 2. and let the sugar melt and add the pears, peeled and cut in small

Step 3. pieces, let it come to a boil, then simmer gently several hours,

Step 4. until the syrup is thick; it should be red when cooked. Seal up in jars. Orange Marmalade 1 orange 1 grapefruit 1 lemon

Step 5. Grind all in meat grinder, measure and put three times as

Step 6. much water and let stand until next day. The following day boil 10 minutes, add as much sugar as juice, cup for cup, and

Step 7. boil until it jellies about I J hour. This will make about 16 glasses.