Directions For Making Sweetmeats Recipe

A pound of sugar to a pound of fruit, is sufficient to preserve most

kinds of fruit. Some kinds of fruit require more, and some will do with

less, than an equal weight of sugar. White sugar makes the most delicate

sweetmeats--nice brown sugar answers very well for most kinds of fruit.

The West India sugar-house syrup is better than sugar to preserve fruit,

on account of its never fermenting. When brown sugar is used, clarify

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