Name: Dried Fruits
Ingredients: two cups of water to one of fruit; one has said -- heavy- handled thing such as the very poor french people used

Dried Fruits

Ingredients

two cups of water to one of fruit
one has said -- heavy- handled thing such as the very poor french people used

Directions

Prepare

Wash the dried fruit very carefully, often many times, to clean them thoroughly.
Soak the fruit for twelve hours.
Add two cups of water to one cup of fruit.

Cook

Cook the prunes for a long time, adding sugar as needed.

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Dried fruit: Provides the main flavor and, as it softens, the body of the finished dish.
Water: Softens the dried fruit during soaking and turns into a syrup as it cooks.
Sugar (in the method): Adds sweetness, adjusted to taste during cooking.

“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.