Great White Plum, to preserve

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Time
Cook: 15 min Total: 15 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (2)
Instructions (4)
  1. Slit the plums down the seam.
  2. put them in the syrup with the slit downward, and let them stew over the fire for a quarter of an hour.
  3. Skim them; take them off;
  4. when cold, turn them; cover them up for four or five days, turning them two or three times a day in the syrup; then put them in pots, not too many together.
Original Text
Great White Plum, to preserve. To one pound of plums put three quarters of a pound of fine sugar; dip the lumps of sugar in water just sufficient to wet it through; boil and skim it, till you think it enough. Slit the plums down the seam; put them in the syrup with the slit downward, and let them stew over the fire for a quarter of an hour. Skim them; take them off; when cold, turn them; cover them up for four or five days, turning them two or three times a day in the syrup; then put them in pots, not too many together.
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