Damson Cheese
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the fruit
Bake the damsons in a stone jar.
Pour off some of the juice.
In a pan, boil the fruit quickly until it looks dry.
Remove the stones from the fruit.
Make the preserve
Add the sugar and stir well.
Simmer for 2 hours.
Boil quickly for 30 minutes until the sides of the pan candy.
Set
Pour the mixture into potting pans about 1 inch thick.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Damsons
- Provide the fruit flavour, natural pectin and acidity that give the preserve its body.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and, as the mixture thickens, helps it set and keeps it preserved.
The step that matters
Boil until the sides of the pan candy. As water evaporates, the sugar concentration rises and the mixture thickens and sets. Stopping too early leaves it runny, while cooking too long can make it stiff and grainy once cooled.
“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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