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Marmalades

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France

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

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. three pounds of fruit
  2. Apples
  3. Apricots
  4. Honey
  5. Plums
  6. four pounds of sugar

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. Are liquid preserves obtained from the pulp of fruit and sugar : they ought to have the consistence of honey.
  2. Apples, apricots, cherries, plums, &c.
  3. The process of making marmalade is very simple, thus : — Take some apricots ;
  4. take out the stones ;
  5. put four pounds of sugar into a pan with three pounds of fruit : place it on the fire ;
  6. let it simmer, stirring the whole time.
  7. When the marmalade appears to have sufficient consistence, take it off the fire.
  8. All fruit is prepared the same.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Manual of French cookery (1853), printed page 232, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/manualoffrenchco00onew

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.