Name: Prunes
Ingredients: prunes; lukewarm water; thick cream

Prunes

Ingredients

prunes
lukewarm water
thick cream

Directions

Prepare

Wash the prunes thoroughly.
Place them in a deep vessel or pitcher.
Add enough lukewarm water to cover the prunes.
Let them soak overnight.
Remove the peel easily after soaking.

Serve

Serve the prunes with thick cream.

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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What each ingredient does

Prunes: Provide the main fruit flavour and sweetness, and soften during soaking.
Thick cream: Adds richness and fat that balances the tartness of the prunes.

“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.