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Apricots in Brandy

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France

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. two pints of water
  2. four pounds of sugar
  3. Apricots
  4. Must
  5. Brandy

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.
  • 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

  1. Abricots 21 Eau-de-vie.
  2. Choose the quantity wanted of the finest fruit without blemish from espaliers;
  3. prick each of them several times with the point of a knife ;
  4. throw them into water ;
  5. blanch them, stirring them from time to time ;
  6. when the fryit begins to soften, take them off quickly and N 6 7a) FRENCH COOKERY.
  7. put them into fresh water;
  8. drain and make the syrup.
  9. For an hundred apricots clarify four pounds of sugar in two pints of water;
  10. put in the apricots ;
  11. give them a boil, and leave them in the syrup till next day ;
  12. then drain them, and reduce the syrup to one-half, and let it fall for a moment, so that the fruit may be put in to get a little movement, as it must not boil;
  13. when cold fill the bottles;
  14. reduce the syrup, and distribute it’ in sufficient quantity into them, and fill them up with brandy;
  15. shake them well to mix, or mix it before it is added to the fruit.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Colander