Golden Pippins, to preserve

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Ingredients (3)
Instructions (4)
  1. Into a pint of clear spring water put a pound of double-refined sugar, and set it on the fire.
  2. Neatly pare and take out the stalks and eyes of a pound of pippins; put them into the sugar and water; cover them close, and boil them as fast as you can for half a quarter of an hour.
  3. Take them off a little to cool; set them on again to boil as fast and as long as they did before.
  4. Do this three or four times till they are very clear; then cover them close.
Original Text
Golden Pippins, to preserve. Into a pint of clear spring water put a pound of double-refined sugar, and set it on the fire. Neatly pare and take out the stalks and eyes of a pound of pippins; put them into the sugar and water; cover them close, and boil them as fast as you can for half a quarter of an hour. Take them off a little to cool; set them on again to boil as fast and as long as they did before. Do this three or four times till they are very clear; then cover them close.
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