Stewed Prunes or Pruens

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
Source
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (6)
  1. Purchase the cheaper kind of small prunes sold at 4d. per lb.
  2. Put them into a saucepan with a pint of water, a bit of lemon-peel, and two ounces of sugar.
  3. Allow them to simmer and stew very gently for about half an hour.
  4. Let them become nearly cold.
  5. Boil some rice in a cloth, as directed in No. 92.
  6. When the rice is done and turned out on its dish, pour the prunes over it for the children's dinner.
Original Text
No. 169. Stewed Prunes or Pruens. Purchase the cheaper kind of small prunes sold at 4d. per lb.; put them into a saucepan with a pint of[80] water, a bit of lemon-peel, and two ounces of sugar, and allow them to simmer and stew very gently for about half an hour, and then let them become nearly cold. Boil some rice in a cloth, as directed in No. 92, and when done and turned out on its dish, pour the prunes over it for the children's dinner. Once in a way, this cheap and wholesome meal would prove a great treat.
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