The Orwell Prize is publishing, 70 years later to each day, the Orwell Diaries.  The entry for August 21 contained a simple recipe for ‘canning without sugar’ saved from a newspaper cutting:

[NEWSPAPER CUTTING]

Fruit Bottling Without Sugar
OLD-TIME COUNTRY METHOD
When this simple method of bottling fruit in cold water without sugar or any cooking was first shown to me by an old country-woman I was doubtful if it would prove successful.
I find, however, that it answers perfectly, and that the fruit has more flavour this way than when it is dealt with by the more usual methods.
Care is necessary in following out the directions. Use air-tight bottles with rubber rings. And now for the simple recipe.
Fill bottles of the kind mentioned with fruit, and place in pail or any suitable receptacle which will hold four to five inches of water over the top of the bottle. Now turn on tap of cold water, or have a can of cold water and pour over the bottled fruit with some force. This is to pack fruit and force out any impurities. Let water run until bottles are filled and running over an inch or two. Stop tap and wait until all bubbles have ceased to rise.
Seal up, under water. Take out, turn the bottles upside-down. If all are dry next morning all is well. If there is any leaking you must do the work over again. The fruit keeps its flavour as though freshly gathered. – T. H. S.

There is also a recipe, August 22, for ‘Sloe Gin’, direct from the gypsies.

Besides the refreshing breeze that blows from these pages of man who could always talk about the weather because he was genuinely interested in it, I thought the recipes might be useful for freaking us out.