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Abricots A L'eau De Vie

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Plums
  2. Pears
  3. a pint of brandy
  4. Apricots

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Begin by scalding your apricots in thin syrup, for four or five days ;
  2. then, when boiling the last time, add a pint of brandy, let them boil up, take them off and when cold put them into jars, and pour the syrup over them.
  3. Cover for use.
  4. Plums can be preserved in the same way, and pears can be also preserved in brandy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan