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Preserved Damsons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Damsons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill preserving pots or jars with damsons.

  2. Set them in warm water over the heat.

  3. Boil a rich syrup and pour it hot over the damsons.

  4. After a week, drain off the syrup and boil it again with more sugar.

  5. Pour the hot syrup over the damsons and seal them with bladder and paper the next day.

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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