PEACH MARMALADE
4 cups (2 lbs.) prepared fruit
7½ cups (3¼ lbs.) sugar
1 bottle Certo
To prepare fruit, peel off the yellow rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon with a sharp knife, leaving as much of the white part on the fruit as possible. Put yellow rinds through the food chopper twice. Add ¾ cup water and ¹/₁₆ teaspoon soda to ground rind and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Cut off the tight skin of the peeled fruit and slip the pulp out of each section. Add pulp and juice and the juice of an additional lemon to the rind, and simmer, covered, 20 minutes longer. Peel about 1½ pounds fully ripe peaches. Pit and grind or chop very fine. Then combine fruits.
Measure sugar into large kettle. Add prepared fruit, filling up the last cup with water if necessary. Mix well, bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in Certo. Stir and skim for 5 minutes. Pour quickly. Paraffin hot marmalade at once. Makes about 11 glasses (6 fluid ounces each).
PLUM JAM
PRUNE JAM
4½ cups (2¼ lbs.) prepared fruit
7½ cups (3¼ lbs.) sugar
½ bottle Certo
To prepare fruit, pit about 3 pounds fully ripe fruit. Do not peel. Cut into small pieces and crush thoroughly. Add ½ cup water and simmer, covered, 5 minutes. (Sour, cling-stone plums give best color and flavor. If sweet plums or free-stone prunes are used, substitute ½ cup lemon juice for ½ cup of the prepared fruit specified.) Measure sugar and prepared fruit into large kettle, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in Certo. Stir and skim for 5 minutes. Pour quickly. Paraffin at once. Makes about 11 glasses (6 fluid ounces each).
[CHERRY JAM]
4 cups (2 lbs.) prepared fruit
7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar
1 bottle Certo
To prepare fruit, pit about 2½ pounds fully ripe cherries. Crush thoroughly or grind. (If sweet cherries are used, substitute ¼ cup lemon juice for ¼ cup of the prepared fruit specified. For stronger cherry flavor, add ¼ teaspoon almond extract before pouring.) Measure sugar into large kettle. Add prepared fruit, packing each cup solidly and filling up the last cup with water, if necessary. Mix well and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in Certo. Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool slightly, to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin at once. Makes about 11 glasses (6 fluid ounces each).