The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
August 3rd : RASPBERRY OR STRAWBERRY JAM
Be sure that your fruit be sound, free from mildew , and fresh gathered; rub it through a cane sieve, put as many pounds of finely powdered sugar as you have pints of pulp, set it on the fire in a stewpan, stir it well, and as it becomes hot, take off the scum; twenty minutes slow boiling will be sufficient. Put it in pots as before directed, in the making of currant jelly. For strawberry jam, select the small scarlet pine.