To preserve Pippins in Slices

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (13)
  1. Prepare pippins, but do not core them.
  2. Cut pippins in slices.
  3. Take the weight of the sliced pippins in sugar.
  4. Put a pretty quantity of water to the sugar.
  5. Let the sugar and water melt.
  6. Skim the sugar and water mixture.
  7. Let the mixture boil again very high.
  8. Put the pippin slices into the syrup when they are clear.
  9. Lay the pippin slices in shallow glasses in which they will be served.
  10. Put candied orange-peel, cut in little slices very thin, into the syrup.
  11. Lay the orange-peel about the pippins.
  12. Cover the pippins with syrup.
  13. Keep the pippins about the pippin (this instruction is unclear, likely meant to say 'keep the pippins covered with syrup').
Original Text
To preserve Pippins in Slices. YOUR pippins being prepared, but not cored, cut them in slices, and take the weight of them in sugar, put to your sugar a pretty quantity of water, let it melt, and skim it, let it boil again very high; then put them into the syrup when they are clear; lay them in shallow glasses, in which you mean to serve them up; then put into the syrup a candied orange-peel cut in little slices very thin, and lay about the pippin; cover them with syrup, and keep them about the pippin.
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