Peach Leather

Original Recipe

Stew as many peaches as you choose, allowing a quarter of a pound of sugar to one of fruit; mash it up smooth as it cooks, and when it is dry enough to spread in a thin sheet on a board greased with butter, set it out in the sun to dry; when dry it can be rolled up like leather, wrapped up in a cloth, and will keep perfectly from season to season. School-children regard it as a delightful addition to their lunch of biscuit or cold bread. Apple and quince leather are made in the same fashion, only a little flavoring or spice is added to them.

Ingredients

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  • 1 quarter of a pound of sugar to one of fruit
  • 1 thin sheet on a board greased with butter
  • 1 cloth
  • 1 delightful addition to their lunch of biscuit or cold bread
  • 1 little flavoring or spice is added to them

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Stew as many peaches as you choose, allowing a quarter of a pound of sugar to one of fruit; mash it up smooth as it cooks, and when it is dry enough to spread in a thin sheet on a board greased with butter, set it out in the sun to dry; when dry it can be rolled up like leather, wrapped up in a cloth, and will keep perfectly from season to season.

  2. 2

    School-children regard it as a delightful addition to their lunch of biscuit or cold bread.

  3. 3

    Apple and quince leather are made in the same fashion, only a little flavoring or spice is added to them.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)