Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Canned apricots from Erken's Stor kokebok (1914): apricots are blanched, peeled, halved and pitted, packed into jars with a few blanched kernels, covered with a sugar syrup of 400 g sugar and 1 l water, and sterilized 20 minutes at 90 °C.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 581 (falt i det fri)
From the chapter on preserving in "Stor kokebok" (1914). Erken refers to the general instructions for canning on page 577. The sugar syrup is weak by today's measure — about 40 g sugar per dl water.
Blanch the apricots
Dip the apricots for a moment in boiling water, and transfer them immediately to cold water.
Peel and halve
Peel the apricots with a silver or horn knife (or a stainless steel knife). Halve them and remove the pits. Blanch a few of the kernels.
Fill the jars
Place the apricot halves in clean jars, and put a few blanched kernels in each jar.
Boil the sugar syrup
Boil 400 g sugar with 1 liter water until the sugar is dissolved, and pour it over the fruit in the jars.
Sterilize
Close the jars and sterilize them for 20 minutes at 90 °C (195 °F) following the usual instructions for canning. Cool them away from drafts.
Quantities are set up as a structured ingredient list with modern units (dl/liter, grams). The method is divided into numbered steps and put into modern Norwegian. A silver or horn knife is still mentioned, but an ordinary stainless steel knife can be used today.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Note til Modernisert
Mengder er satt opp som strukturert ingrediensliste med moderne enheter (dl/liter, gram). Fremgangsmåten er delt i nummererte trinn og satt i moderne norsk. Sølv- eller hornkniv nevnes fortsatt, men en vanlig kniv i rustfritt stål kan brukes i dag.
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