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Compote Of Prunes

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. a glass of sherry
  3. Cream
  4. Plums
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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.

Method

  1. Soak two dozen good-sized French plums in warm water for fifteen minutes, drain, and simmer in compote syrup, into which put a glass of sherry or curacoa and stew for twenty minutes more ;
  2. let them get cold, arrange neatly, pour the syrup over them, and cover with a thick whip of cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Colander