Pumpkin preserves
6 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | pounds | Pumpkin (prepared) |
| 3 | Lemons | |
| 4 | pounds | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | tablespoon | Mixed spices * |
Directions
Wash pumpkin. Remove peel and seed. Cut pumpkin as wanted. Weigh and mix with sugar. let stand 12 to 18 hours in a cool place. Add thinly sliced lemons, salt and mixed spices (tied in bag). Boil until pumpkin is clear and sirup thick. Pour, boiling hot, into hot Ball jars; seal at once.
NOTE: Use ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc to flavor this your way.
From the; Ball Blue Book - Home canning and freezing recipes and methods Published in 1956 by Ball Brothers Co. INC. Muncie, Indiana