Nursery Preserve

Instructions

1. Take the stones from a couple of pounds of Kentish cherries, and boil them twenty minutes.
2. Then add to them a pound and a half of raspberries, and an equal quantity of red and of white currants, all weighed after they have been cleared from their stems.
3. Boil these together quickly for twenty minutes.
4. Mix with them three pounds and a quarter of common sugar, and give the preserve fifteen minutes more of quick boiling.
5. A pound and a half of gooseberries may be substituted for the cherries, but they will not require any stewing before they are added to the other fruits.
6. The jam must be well stirred from the beginning, or it will burn to the pan.
7. Proportions: Kentish cherries, 2 lbs.: 20 minutes. Raspberries, red currants, and white currants, of each 1-1/2 lb.: 20 minutes. Sugar, 3-1/4 lbs.: 15 minutes.