To Preserve Green Apricots
Ingredients
Directions
Lay vine or apricot leaves at the bottom of a pan.
Layer green apricots on top of the leaves.
Continue layering fruit and leaves until the pan is full.
Ensure the top layer is thick with leaves.
Fill the pan with spring water.
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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