Damson Jam

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
Source
Modern cookery for private families
Time
Cook: 55 min Total: 55 min
Status
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Ingredients (2)
Instructions (4)
  1. Split, stone, weigh, and boil the fruit quickly for forty minutes.
  2. Stir in half its weight of good sugar roughly powdered.
  3. When the sugar is dissolved, give the preserve fifteen minutes additional boiling, keeping it stirred, and thoroughly skimmed.
Observation
  1. A more refined preserve is made by pressing the fruit through a sieve after it is boiled tender; but the jam is excellent without.
Original Text
DAMSON JAM. (VERY GOOD.) The fruit for this jam should be freshly gathered and quite ripe. Split, stone, weigh, and boil it quickly for forty minutes; then stir in half its weight of good sugar roughly powdered, and when it is dissolved, give the preserve fifteen minutes additional boiling, keeping it stirred, and thoroughly skimmed. Damsons, stoned, 6 lbs.: 40 minutes. Sugar, 3 lbs.: 15 minutes. Obs.—A more refined preserve is made by pressing the fruit through a sieve after it is boiled tender; but the jam is excellent without.
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