810. Compote of Green Apricots

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Instructions (11)
  1. Pick off all the stalks from the green apricots.
  2. Throw the prepared apricots into a stewpan containing a quart of boiling water.
  3. Let them boil very fast for ten minutes.
  4. Drain the apricots upon a sieve.
  5. Place the drained apricots in half a pint of syrup made as before directed.
  6. Boil the apricots in the syrup until tender, but not to break.
  7. Thicken the syrup.
  8. Pour the whole into a basin until quite cold.
  9. Should the syrup then be too thin, strain it off into the stewpan to reduce to a proper consistency.
  10. Pour the reduced syrup again over the apricots when quite cold.
  11. Dish tastefully.
Original Text · last edited 13 days ago
810. Compote of Green Apricots.—Have a pottle of green apricots, from which pick off all the stalks, and throw them into a stewpan containing a quart of boiling water, and let them boil very fast for ten minutes, and drain them upon a sieve: have ready half a pint of syrup made as before directed, in which boil them until tender, but not to break, and thicken the syrup, pour the whole into a basin until quite cold; should the syrup then be too thin, strain it off into the stewpan to reduce to a proper consistency, pouring it again over the apricots when quite cold. Dish tastefully.
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