4 cups (2 lbs.) prepared fruit
7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar
1 bottle Certo
To prepare fruit, pit about 2½ pounds fully ripe cherries. Crush
thoroughly or grind. (If sweet cherries are used, substitute ¼ cup lemon
juice for ¼ cup of the prepared fruit specified. For stronger cherry
flavor, add ¼ teaspoon almond extract before pouring.) Measure sugar
into large kettle. Add prepared fruit, packing each cup solidly and
filling up the last cup with water, if necessary. Mix well and bring to
a _full rolling boil_ over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and
while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in Certo.
Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool slightly, to
prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin at once. Makes about 11
glasses (6 fluid ounces each).