Candied Pippins

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
for the pippins
for the syrup
for flavoring and garnish
Instructions (8)
  1. Pare and core the pippins and throw them into fair water as you pare them.
  2. Take the weight of the fruit of double refined sugar, and dissolve it in a quart of water.
  3. Boil the sugar water up, and scum it clean.
  4. Put in the fruit and let them stew gently till they are tender, and look clear.
  5. Take the pippins out.
  6. Squeeze in the juice of a large lemon, and let it boil up.
  7. Scum it and run it through a jelly bag upon the fruit.
  8. Stick the pippins with candied oranges and lemons cut in thin slices, if you please.
Original Text
PARE and core your pippins and throw them into fair water as you pare them, then take the weight of the fruit of double refined sugar, and dissolve it in a quart of water, then boil it up, and scum it clean, then put in the fruit, let them stew gently till they are tender, and look clear, then take them out, and squeeze in the juice of a large lemon, and let it boil up, scum it and run it through a jelly bag upon the fruit; you may stick the pippins with candied oranges and lemons cut in thin slices, if you please.
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