Untitled Instructions for Restoring Fomented Raspberry Jam

[ Untitled Instructions for Restoring Fomented Raspberry Jam ] Margaret Hutchinson

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Contributor Role
Author
Contributor Name
Margaret Hutchinson

Date: 1788/09/06

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Food

Ingredients
raspberry jam
brandy
brandy paper

Places
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Boston
Massachusetts

Source: Personal Papers for Paul Mascarene and Family 1687-1839
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Source Origin: Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society | Reference: Microfilm Reel 10,902

Description

Instructions for restoring fomented jam from a 1788 letter from Margaret Hutchinson in Halifax to her sister in Boston.


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 [...]
I sent you my dear sister by the last vessel a small jar of Rasberry
jam and another to Mrs Perkins, I had not time to write to beg your
acceptance of it I hope it will prove good. I am afraid it will be
longer on the water, then I thought when it was put on board not
knowing then that the vessell was to put into an out port before
it went to Boston, if you find it has fomented, any, give it a
boil up and keep a brandy layer over it [ . . . ]