Pickled Peaches Or Pears - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 qt. vinegar
6 lb. sugar
12 lb. peeled fruit (6 qt.)
1 spice bag (1 Tbsp. ground cloves and 1 piece ginger root)

Preparation

Make a syrup of vinegar and sugar.
Add spice bag and 4 to 5 whole sticks of cinnamon to syrup.
Slowly add peaches into the boiling syrup.
Cook until the fruit can be pierced with a broom straw.
Let stand in a covered kettle overnight.
The next day, pack into jars to 1/2 inch of top of jar.
Cover with syrup.
Put on tops tightly.
Process in water bath for 20 minutes.