Candied Cherries and Plums

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (5)
For the cherries
For the plums
Instructions (6)
  1. Dip the stalks and leaves in boiling white wine vinegar.
  2. Scald them in syrup.
  3. Take them out and boil them to a candy height.
  4. Dip in the cherries, and hang them to dry with the cherries downwards.
  5. Dry them before the fire, or in the sun.
  6. Take the plums, after boiling in the thin syrup, peel off the skin and candy them, and hang them up to dry.
Original Text
DIP the stalks and leaves in white wine vinegar boiling, then scald them in syrup; take them out and boil them to a candy height; dip in the cherries, and hang them to dry with the cherries downwards. Dry them before the fire, or in the sun. Then take the plums, after boiling in the thin syrup, peel off the skin and candy them, and to hang them up to dry.
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