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Updated: August 6, 2026

If the fruit were to be eaten along with meat, as a relish, a cupful of vinegar was added after the sugar. This made it a near approach to the finest sweet pickle. But as Mammy said often: "Dried peaches wus good ernough fer anybody dest by dee sefs, dry so." Apple drying commonly came a little before peach. Horse apples, the best and plentiest, ripened in the beginning of August.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South