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A stew made by soaking dried fruit in water and cooking until tender, sweetened to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855 · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Stew Dried Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash dried fruit well in three or four different waters.

  2. Soak the fruit overnight in the water in which you intend to stew them.

Stew

  1. For four quarts of fruit, add enough water to cover them so that none need to be added while cooking.

  2. Season and sweeten to your taste.

  3. Add dried orange peel to peaches if desired.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855. 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.

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