Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and more. She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture. Prior to freelancing, Jennifer held an Editor role at Time Inc.
Two glass bottles filled with centuries-old cherries were found hidden inside George Washington's historic home in Virginia.
To help preserve the roughly 250-year-old glass bottles, researchers decanted their contents — including cherries, pits, stems and a"gooey residue" — into smaller vessels for future analysis, The Washington Post reported. Researchers think that much of the amber-colored liquid could be groundwater that seeped into the bottles as their corks deteriorated over time and that the cherries were likely harvested at Mount Vernon in the 1770s, possibly before the Revolutionary War, and squirreled away for future consumption. The bottles themselves were buried sometime between 1758 and 1776, The Washington Post reported.
"There are 18th century accounts that talk about proper ways of preserving fruits and vegetables," Boroughs said."One of the most common, especially for berries, is to dry them as much as possible … put them in a dry bottle, cork it … and then bury them."
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