To preserve Magnum Bonum Plums

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (5)
for preserving plums
Instructions (14)
  1. Take the large yellow plums, put them in a pan full of spring water.
  2. Set them over a slow fire, keep putting them down with a spoon till you find the skin will come off.
  3. Then take them up and peel the skin off with a pen-knife.
  4. Put them in a fine thin syrup and give them a gentle boil.
  5. Then take them off, and turn them pretty often in the syrup, or the outside will turn brown.
  6. When they are quite cold, set them over the fire again, let them boil five or six minutes.
  7. Then take them off, and turn them very often in the syrup till they are near cold.
  8. Then take them out, and lay them separately on a flat china dish.
  9. Strain the syrup through a muslin rag.
  10. Add to it the weight of the plums of fine loaf sugar.
  11. Boil and skim it very well.
  12. Then put in your plums, boil them till they look clear.
  13. Then put them carefully into jars or glasses, cover them well with the syrup, or they will lose their colour.
  14. Put brandy papers and a bladder over them.
Original Text
To preserve Magnum Bonum Plums. TAKE the large yellow plums, put them in a pan full of spring water, set them over a slow fire, keep putting them down with a spoon till you find the skin will come off, then take them up and peel the skin off with a pen-knife, put them in a fine thin syrup and give them a gentle boil, then take them off, and turn them pretty often in the syrup, or the outside will turn brown; when they are quite cold, set them over the fire again, let them boil five or six minutes, then take them off, and turn them very often in the syrup till they are near cold, then take them out, and lay them separately on a flat china dish, strain the syrup through a muslin rag: add to it the weight of the plums of fine loaf sugar, boil and skim it very well, then put in your plums, boil them till they look clear, then put them carefully into jars or glasses, cover them well with the syrup, or they will lose their colour, put brandy papers and a bladder over them.
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