Preserved Fruit, without Sugar (No. 99)

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's ... · Kitchiner, William · 1817
Source
The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (3)
Instructions (8)
  1. Take damsons when not too ripe; pick off the stalks, and put them into wide-mouthed glass bottles, taking care to put in any but what are whole, and without blemish.
  2. Shake them well down (otherwise the bottles will not be half full when done).
  3. Stop the bottles with new soft corks, not too tight.
  4. Set them into a very slow oven (nearly cold) four or five hours; the slower they are done the better.
  5. When they begin to shrink in the bottles, it is a sure sign that the fruit is thoroughly warm: take them out, and before they are cold, drive in the corks quite tight.
  6. Set them in a bottle-rack or basket, with the mouth downwards, and they will keep good several years.
Variations
  1. Green gooseberries, morello cherries, currants, green gages, or bullace, may be done the same way.
Observation
  1. If the corks are good, and fit well, there will be no occasion for cementing them; but should bungs be used, it will be necessary.
Original Text
Preserved Fruit, without Sugar.—(No. 99.) Take damsons when not too ripe; pick off the stalks, and put them into wide-mouthed glass bottles, taking care not to put in any but what are whole, and without blemish; shake them well down (otherwise the bottles will not be half full when done); stop the bottles with new soft corks, not too tight; set them into a very slow oven (nearly cold) four or five hours; the slower they are done the better; when they[390] begin to shrink in the bottles, it is a sure sign that the fruit is thoroughly warm: take them out, and before they are cold, drive in the corks quite tight; set them in a bottle-rack or basket, with the mouth downwards, and they will keep good several years. Green gooseberries, morello cherries, currants, green gages, or bullace, may be done the same way. Obs.—If the corks are good, and fit well, there will be no occasion for cementing them; but should bungs be used, it will be necessary.
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