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Plum Preserve

A preserve made from green gages, boiled with water and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Plum Preserve

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Prick the fruit and place it in a preserving kettle.

  2. Cover generously with cold water and heat to boiling.

  3. Boil gently for five minutes, then drain well.

Make the syrup and cook

  1. In a preserving kettle, combine sugar and water, stirring until dissolved.

  2. Boil for five minutes, skimming well.

  3. Add the drained green gages to the syrup and cook gently for twenty minutes.

  4. Transfer to sterilized jars.

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

Green gages
Provide the fruit that is cooked into the preserve, giving it its main flavor and body.
Sugar
Sweetens the preserve and, at this concentration, helps it keep and set.

“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.

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