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Preserving

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Preserving

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook whole fruits in sirup until clear and transparent.

  2. Ensure the fruit keeps its form, is plump, tender, and clear.

  3. Gradually increase the density of the sirup to allow the fruit to absorb it.

  4. Boil the fruit in sirup or alternate cooking and resting in the sirup.

  5. If the fruit shrivels, reduce the sirup's density by adding 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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