CHEAP METHOD OP PRESERVING FRUIT- 9^ 



ter. Cork down tight. Lay them on their side until wanted 

 for use. 



It may be said as an additional reason, as well as cheap- Buttles. 

 ness, for using wine, or porter bottles, instead of goose- 

 berry, that there is a difficulty of obtaining them, even at 

 any price, in some parts of the country ; and indeed they 

 are equally useful for small fruit, and answer the purpose 

 quite as well, excepting the little inconvenience of getting 

 the fruit out when wanted for use, which may be easily 

 done by first pouring all the liquor out into a bason, or any 

 •ther vessel, and then with a bit of bent wire, or small iron 

 meat skewer, the fruit may be raked out. Some of the 

 liquor first poured oft' serves to put into the pies, tarts, or 

 puddings, instead of water, as it is strongly impregnated 

 with the virtues of the fruit, and the remainder may be 

 boiled up with a little sugar, which makes a very rich and 

 agreeable syrup. 



In confirmation of the foregoing assertions, I now pro- Specimen 

 duce twenty-four bottles as samples, containing twelve dif- 

 ferent sorts of fruit, viz. aprirots, rhubarb, gooseberries, 

 currants, raspberries, ^cherries, plums, Orleans plums, egg 

 plums, damsons, Siberian crabs*, and green gages — . 

 which have all been preserved in the manner above de- 

 scribed. 



In order to diversify the degree of heat, and time of con- The heat must 

 tinuance over the fire, I have done some in one hundred £Je at ^r^ 

 and ninety degrees, and continued them in it for three iongcontimidL 

 quarters of an hour; from which experiments it is evident, 

 that the heat is too powerful, and the time too long, as tire 

 fruit by this degree and continuance is rendered nearly to a 

 pulpf. 



In the summer of 1807 I preserved ninety-five bottles of Cost, 

 fruit, the expense of which, (exclusive of bottles and corks) 

 was £l 9s. 5~d. ; but having some fruit left, it will not be 

 right to judge them at a higher rate than £l Q$. ; and al- 

 lowing 5s, for the extra coals consumed in consequence of 



* Apples and pears may be done for shipping, Sec. 



f Some of these samples of 1807, were done in' 160 and 190 degrees. 



my 



