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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 7 ingredients
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
- 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.
- Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.
Method
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- Take plums, or apricots, baking pears, and apples, of each a pound;
- slice the pears and apples, and open the plums;
- put them in layers in an earthen mug, and set it in a slow oven.
- W hen the fruit is soft, squeeze it through a colander ;
- add a pound of sugar ;
- place it on the fire, and let it simmer, till it will leave the pan clear.
- Then put it into an earthen mould to cut out for use, or drop it on a plate, and let it stand till it is so dry that paper will not stick to it, then put it by for use.
- You must stir it all the time it is on the fire, or it will burn.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Chef's knife
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Cutting board
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Wooden spoon
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Colander