To Preserve, or to Dry Peaches or Nectarines

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (8)
  1. Pare, halve, and weigh the fruit after the stones are removed.
  2. Lay the fruit into a deep dish, and strew over it an equal weight of highly refined pounded sugar.
  3. Let it remain until the sugar is nearly dissolved.
  4. Gently lift the fruit into a preserving-pan, pour the juice and sugar to it, and heat the whole over a very slow fire.
  5. Let it just simmer for ten minutes.
  6. Turn it softly into a bowl, and let it remain for two days.
  7. Repeat the slow heating and simmering at intervals of two or three days, until the fruit is quite clear.
  8. Pot the fruit in the syrup, or drain from it, and dry upon large clean slates or dishes, or upon wire-sieves.
Original Text
TO PRESERVE, OR TO DRY PEACHES OR NECTARINES. (An easy and excellent Receipt.) The fruit should be fine, freshly gathered, and fully ripe, but still in its perfection. Pare, halve, and weigh it after the stones are removed; lay it into a deep dish, and strew over it an equal weight of highly refined pounded sugar; let it remain until this is nearly dissolved, then lift the fruit gently into a preserving-pan, pour the juice and sugar to it, and heat the whole over a very slow fire; let it just simmer for ten minutes, then turn it softly into a bowl, and let it remain for two days; repeat the slow heating and simmering at intervals of two or three days, until the fruit is quite clear, when it 519may be potted in the syrup, or drained from it, and dried upon large clean slates or dishes, or upon wire-sieves. The flavour will be excellent. The strained juice of a lemon may be added to the syrup, with good effect, towards the end of the process, and an additional ounce or two of sugar allowed for it.
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