Freshening Old Prunes
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a clean butter tub with boiling water.
Add the old prunes to the water and let them soak for 2-3 minutes.
Remove the prunes and drain them through a sieve.
If desired, add a little molasses to the hot water to sweeten it before soaking the prunes.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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