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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.
- Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.
Ingredients 6 ingredients
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
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- Make a syrup to the proportion of two cups of sugar to four of water.
- Let it boil for a few minutes in a preserving pan.
- If it is not clear, strain through butter muslin.
- Then put two or three pounds of fruit in it at a time while the syrup is boiling, and simmer from ten to twenty minutes, according to the kind of fruit ;
- the latter should be soft and clear when done, and unbroken.
- Take the bottles, previously warmed, fill to the top with fruit and a little syrup.
- Screw them down tightly.
- Then add more fruit to the boiling syrup until it is used.
- Do not forget to screw the covers more tightly the following day.
- If you have no screw bottles, pour boiling mutton suet on the top of each bottle when cold, about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Any syrup over can be bottled and used as a fruit drink.
- Add vinegar and water to it at the table.
- Must be kept in a dry place.
- Will keep for months.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Chef's knife
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Sieve