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Damson Cheese

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. one pound of sugar
  2. four pounds of fruit

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 the fruit in a stone jar, pour off sorne of the juice, and to every four pounds of fruit, weigh one pound of sugar.
  2. Put the fruit over the fire in the pan, let it boil quickly till it begins to look dry, take out the stones, and add the sugar, stir it well in, and simmer two hours slowly, then boil it quickly thirty minutes, till the sides of the pan candy, then pour the iam into potting pans about an inch thick.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon