Excerpt from Peterson's Preserving, Pickling and Canning Fruit Manual: Containing a Choice Collection of Receipts for Preserving, Pickling and Canning Fruits, Many of Them Being Original From Housewives of ExperienceThe title of this little work will at once indicate to the reader what they may expect.If this Manual becomes a faithful monitor or guide, not only to the young and inexperienced wife or house-keeper, but also affords new and valuable ideas to those of maturer years, then we have accomplished the end for which we started out.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.