On Candying Fruit
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the fruit in lukewarm water and dry it in the oven.
Boil syrup until it reaches the blow stage.
Add the fruit to the syrup and boil until the syrup returns to the blow stage.
Remove the pan from heat and let it stand for a few minutes.
Rub the inside of the pan with a skimmer to grain the sugar.
Stir the fruit into the white sugar.
Use a fork to remove the fruit and place it on a wire rack to drain.
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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