Name: Stewed Prunes
Ingredients: 1 pint prunes; 1 tablespoon sugar; boiling water

Stewed Prunes

Ingredients

1 pint prunes
1 tablespoon sugar
boiling water

Directions

Prepare

Wash the prunes carefully and soak them in water for 1 hour.
Place the prunes in a porcelain or granite kettle and cover with boiling water.

Cook

Simmer the prunes until tender.
Add 1 tablespoon of sugar for each pint of prunes and boil for a few moments longer.

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 body and soft, tender texture as they simmer.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the stewed 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.