Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — Peach Leather. [ARTICLE]

Peach Leather.

This is a famous southern dainty and much used for school children’s lunch basket. Take a peck of ripe freestone peaches, peel and pit them, mash and press the pulp through a coarse sieve. To four quarts of the pulp allow one pint of sugar, brown If you can get it. Mix well, cook about two minutes, stirring all the time, then spread on plates and in the sun. If the weather is hot, throe days will be enough. When the paste on the edges looks like leather and cleaves from the plate readily if a knife is passed around the edge, it is done. Dust with white sugar, then roll up. If stdred in a dry place it will keep for several months.