To preserve Apricots

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Instructions (6)
  1. Pare your apricots, then stone what you can, whole.
  2. Give them a light boiling in a pint of water, or according to your quantity of fruit.
  3. Take the weight of your apricots in sugar, and take the liquor which you boil them in and your sugar, and boil it till it comes to a syrup.
  4. Give them a light boiling, taking off the scum as it rises.
  5. When the syrup jellies, it is enough.
  6. Take up the apricots, and cover them with the jelly, and put cut paper over them, and lay them down when cold.
Original Text
To preserve Apricots. PARE your apricots, then stone what you can, whole; then give them a light boiling in a pint of water, or according to your quantity of fruit; then take the weight of your apricots in sugar, and take the liquor which you boil them in and your sugar, and boil it till it comes to a syrup, and give them a light boiling, taking off the scum as it rises. When the syrup jellies, it is enough; then take up the apricots, and cover them with the jelly, and put cut paper over them, and lay them down when cold.
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