{"id":7898,"slug":"melange","title":"MÉLANGE","description":"From The International Jewish Cook Book by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum.","ingredients_raw":["largest and soundest berries (two quarts)","red, black, and white cherries (as many pounds as desired)","sugar (one pound to each pound of fruit)","pure alcohol (one pint)","bananas, pineapples or oranges (optional)","peaches, apricots, raspberries, blackberries, large red currants, green-gages and purple and red plums (optional, added in season)"],"ingredients_norm":["largest and soundest berry","red black and white cherry","sugar","pure alcohol","bananas pineapples or orange","peaches apricots raspberries blackberries large red currants green gages and purple and red plum"],"steps":["Pick two quarts of the largest and soundest berries and lay them in a new and perfectly clean two-gallon stone jar and cover with two pounds of the finest granulated sugar.","Stone as many pounds of red, black, and white cherries as you wish to use, and add the same quantity of sugar.","You may also use bananas, pineapples or oranges; seed the latter carefully.","Be sure to weigh all the fruit, and allow one pound of sugar to every additional pound of fruit.","Pour over the fruit a pint of pure alcohol.","Tie up the jar with thick paper, and in season add peaches, apricots, raspberries, blackberries, large, red currants; in fact, all kinds of fruit.","Green-gages and purple and red plums also add both to looks and taste. Be sure to add the same amount of sugar as you do fruit, but no more alcohol.","In the fall of the year pack in glass jars; looks very pretty.","Keep it in a dry, cool place.","There is always a surplus of juice, which makes excellent pudding sauce. Add a little water and thicken."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350","source_ref":"pg:12350:w105:6","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.85,"content_hash":"c154c8b613e24ade07aaa7c2f77e6abb15580d526e4fa2a219f50558087620ec","created_at":"2026-08-02T17:05:13Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe, reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/melange"}