212 Method of preserving Fruit without Sugar, 



for use, which may be easily done by first pouring all the 

 liquor out into a bason, or any other 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 off", 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. 



Jn confirmation of the foregoing assertions, I now pro- 

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

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

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

 plums, damsons, Siberian crab3*, and green-gages — which 

 have all been preserved in the manner above described. 



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

 tinuance over the fire, 1 have done some in one hundred 

 and ninety degrees, and continued them in it for three 

 quarters of an hour, from which experiments it is evident 

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

 fruit by that degree and continuance is rendered nearly to a 

 pulpf. In the summer of 1807 I preserved ninety- five 

 bottles of fruit, the expense of which (exclusive of bottler 

 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 lZ. 9s. ; 

 and allowing 5s. for the extra coals consumed in conse- 

 quence of my not having a conveniency of doing more than 

 seven or eight at a time, and this being done at fourteen 

 different times, it will amount to \l. 145. the average cost 

 of which is nearly 4\d. per bottle, exclusive of the trouble 

 of attending them ; but if we estimate their value in the 

 winter season, at }s. per bottle, that being in general as low 

 or lower than the market price, they will produce l/. 15.5., 

 but losing one bottle by accident, reduces it to 4.1. 145. leav- 

 ing a net profit of 3/. on ninety-four bottles, being a clear 

 gain of nearly two hundred per cent. Another great ad- 

 vantage resulting from this statement will appear by making 

 it an article of store for shipping, or exportation; and I shall 



* Apples and pears may be done for shipping, &c. 



f Some ot" these samples of lb07, were done iu ISO and 190 degrees. 



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