Damson Cakes — Baked and Sleived Pears
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 3 ingredients
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
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- whole as you can, as they will then have a better effect.
- Put them into spring water and salt for a day or two.
- Then boil them in a large quantity of water until quite tender, and when done drain them on a sieve.
- Make a thin syrup with a pound of sugar to a quart of water, put in the chips and boil them a few at a time, to keep them from breaking, till they look clear ;
- then put them into another syrup of pounded sugar, as much water as will dissolve it, and boil to candy height.
- Then take them out very carefully and lay them on a sieve ;
- grate or sift double-refined sugar over them, and dry them in the oven.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Grater
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Sieve
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Colander