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Grape Recipes To Preserve Grapes Uncooked

There are several methods of doing this and the attempt is worth making as grapes uncooked are at their best in flavour and health-giving elements. Unfermented grape juice the next best method of keeping the full grape value. GRAPES IN SAWDUST, SAND, ASHES, AND COTTON An old-fashioned method of keeping grapes (which, at the start, must be without blemish) was similar to methods now used with white grapes or those shipped any distance: packing in bran or sawdust thoroughly dried in the sun or moderate oven, then allowed to cool perfectly, spreading a layer of sawdust on the bottom of a box, then a layer of the fruit, with bran or sawdust between so that bunches cannot touch. The last layer of bran should be rather thick and the top of the box screwed on so that the grapes may both be air tight and not jarred more than necessary. Fine, well-sifted wood ashes and sand were also formerly used in this manner and not infrequently cotton wadding was employed in the same way.