Preserved Green Gages
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prick each green gage with a needle to prevent bursting.
Leave a portion of the stem on each fruit for presentation.
Cook
In a saucepan, combine 1 pound of sugar with ½ cup of water to make a syrup.
Add the pricked green gages to the syrup and cook until tender.
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 until tender in the syrup.
- Sugar
- Dissolves into the water to form a syrup that sweetens and preserves the fruit.
The step that matters
Pricking each green gage. Pricking lets the syrup penetrate the skin and prevents the fruit from bursting from internal pressure as it heats. Unpricked skins can split and leave the fruit uneven.
“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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