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Confiture Ménagère (Mixed Fruit)

Name: Confiture Ménagère (Mixed Fruit)
Ingredients: 2268 Gramme Apricot — Apricots, five pounds as supplied; source unit: gramme; 2268 Gramme Egg plum — Egg plums, five pounds as supplied; source unit: gramme; 2268 Gramme Cherry — Cherries, five pounds as supplied; source unit: gramme; 4732 Millilitre Peach — Peaches, five quarts as supplied; mass/stage not established; source unit: millilitre; 2366 Millilitre Pear — Pears, two-and-a-half quarts as supplied; mass/stage not established; source unit: millilitre; 2366 Millilitre Quince — Quinces, two-and-a-half quarts as supplied; mass/stage not established; source unit: millilitre; 6804 Gramme Sugar — Granulated sugar, fifteen pounds; source unit: gramme; 1 Vanilla pod — Vanilla stick; 118 Millilitre Rum — Rum, one gill; source unit: millilitre

Mixed apricot, plum, cherry, peach, pear and quince conserve with rum and vanilla; PDF restores the printed French heading. Source : Alexander Filippini, The International Cook Book (1906), filippini-1906-3212. Adaptation documentaire ; illustration synthétique. Recette non cuisinée ni mesurée par cette campagne. Adaptations : Historic wax/brandy-paper or cool-place storage is not a tested canning process; clean food-safe vessels, promptly chill/freeze, no shelf-stability or expiry claim. Health Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/general-food-safety-tips/home-canning-safety.html Limites : Mixed fruit density/trim stage of volume measures, vessel size and 30-minute set unmeasured.

Type: Preserve

By Alexander Filippini · Posted Sep 29, 2026

Ingredients

Approximate equivalents. US customary measures.

2268 Gramme approximately 5 poundsApricotApricots, five pounds as supplied; source unit: gramme
2268 Gramme approximately 5 poundsEgg plumEgg plums, five pounds as supplied; source unit: gramme
2268 Gramme approximately 5 poundsCherryCherries, five pounds as supplied; source unit: gramme
4732 Millilitre approximately 20 US cupsPeachPeaches, five quarts as supplied; mass/stage not established; source unit: millilitre
2366 Millilitre approximately 10 US cupsPearPears, two-and-a-half quarts as supplied; mass/stage not established; source unit: millilitre
2366 Millilitre approximately 10 US cupsQuinceQuinces, two-and-a-half quarts as supplied; mass/stage not established; source unit: millilitre
6804 Gramme approximately 15 poundsSugarGranulated sugar, fifteen pounds; source unit: gramme
1 Vanilla podVanilla stick
118 Millilitre approximately one half US cupsRumRum, one gill; source unit: millilitre

Method

Steps

Step 1
Prepare all fruits as printed: peel peaches/pears/quinces, split plums/apricots, remove stones, seeds and stems; retain safe edible flesh. Record trimmed yields; no kernel addition is printed.
Step 2
Cook fifteen pounds sugar with vanilla stick and one gill rum to the first bubbling stage; add all prepared fruits together and gently cook thirty-minute historical guide, stirring.
Step 3
Move to suitably sized warmed food-safe vessels, cool promptly and refrigerate/freeze. Do not treat printed cognac-dipped wax paper as a validated seal.

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