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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Must
  2. Dip
  3. Water
  4. a pound of sugar

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. All these are now more commonly and more cheaply bought than made at home, but we add a few recipes for those who prefer them home-made.
  2. 2319.
  3. — PRESERVED FRUIT IN CAKES.
  4. Ingredients.— Fruit, sugar.
  5. Mode.
  6. — Any fruit you may chance to have may be preserved most economically as follows : To every lb.
  7. of fruit allow half a pound of sugar, with a little water.
  8. When the water and sugar are heated, take up the fruit in your skimmer, as much as it will hold, and dip it for about a minute into the sugar ;
  9. after this spread it on tins.
  10. All the fruit, must be done thus.
  11. Then boil down the sugar till you get a rich thick syrup, and pour it over the fruit.
  12. The fruit must now be put either in the sun, or in a warm oven, till it is in a dried gelatinous condition.
  13. Let it remain till quite dry, when put it in bags, dividing it into cakes.
  14. These cakes will keep a long time, and, when wanted for use, merely require a little hot water put to them and probably extra sugar.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon