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Barberries, To Candy

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pint of water
  2. Berries
  3. two pounds of sugar
  4. Must

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

  1. Take some preserved barberries, wash them in warm water to cleanse them from the syrup, and cover with dry finely-powdered sugar.
  2. Put them quickly into a moderately-heated oven, keeping them well sprinkled with sugar, and turning frequently.
  3. Barberries, To Dry, in Bunches.
  4. — Take fine bunches and hang them for a quarter of an hour in a vessel of boiling water ;
  5. remove them carefully without bruising, and simmer ten minutes in a boiling syrup made with two pounds of sugar and a pint of water ;
  6. then draw the syrup from the fire, and let the bunches stay in it for several hours.
  7. Then hang them up to drain and dry.
  8. Remove when sufficiently dry and put away with care.
  9. Barberries may be had without stones, but should there he any they must he removed before commencing to dry them.
  10. Cost of berries, 4d.
  11. to od.
  12. per pint.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Colander