Pumpkin Preserves

Photo: flickr user guano

Ingredients

4 pounds Pumpkin (prepared)

3 Lemons

4 pounds Sugar

teaspoon Salt

1 tablespoon Mixed spices *

Preparation

Wash pumpkin. Remove peel and seed. Cut pumpkin as wanted. Weigh and mix with sugar. let stand 12 to 18 hours in a cool place. Add thinly sliced lemons, salt and mixed spices (tied in bag). Boil until pumpkin is clear and sirup thick. Pour, boiling hot, into hot Ball jars; seal at once.

NOTE: Use ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc to flavor this your way.

From the; Ball Blue Book - Home canning and freezing recipes and methods