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Peum Preserve

A preserve made from green gages boiled with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Peum Preserve

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Prick the green gages and place them in a preserving kettle.

  2. Cover the fruit generously with cold water.

  3. Heat to boiling and boil gently for five minutes.

  4. Drain the fruit well.

Make the syrup and cook

  1. In a preserving kettle, combine the sugar and water, stirring over heat until the sugar dissolves.

  2. Boil for five minutes, skimming well.

  3. Add the drained green gages to the syrup and cook gently for twenty minutes.

Jar

  1. Transfer to sterilized jars.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Green gages
Make up the fruit body of the preserve and supply its main flavour.
Sugar
Sweetens the preserve and, at high concentration, helps preserve it and thicken the syrup.

The step that matters

Dissolving the sugar fully before boiling. Stirring over heat until the sugar dissolves prevents undissolved crystals from remaining in the syrup. Leftover crystals can seed grainy sugar in the finished preserve and can also scorch on the bottom of the kettle.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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