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United Kingdom

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Brandy
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. Water
  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.

Method

  1. Bake or boil the fruit as above;
  2. but, instead of taking out the juice, beat the bullaces through a coarse sieve;
  3. then proceed as before, crack the stones.and boil the kernels with the jam.
  4. The sugar must not be added until the juice has evaporated.
  5. .
  6. Buuuaces (to preserve).— Prick the fruit, throw them into scalding water for a minute, take them clear from the water, strew over them powdered lump sugar ;
  7. the next day pour off the syrup, boil an skim it, pour it over the bullaces, and let it stand a day or two;
  8. boil the syrup again, put in the fruit and boil them together (be careful not to mash them), and then put the preserve into jars;
  9. when cold, put brandy papers.
  10. To a pound of fruitallow half a pound of sugar.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve