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To PRESERVE MOGUL PLUMS

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. 7 Ibs. of powdered sugar
  3. 8 Ibs. of sugar
  4. 15 Ibs. of mogul plums

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. Take 15 Ibs.
  2. of mogul plums, good and ripe, put them in boiling water, so that the skin may come off without breaking the plums.
  3. Have ready 7 Ibs.
  4. of powdered sugar, and according as you peel the plums, sprinkle the sugar over them, then leave them in it for 1 2 hours (or over night);
  5. then pour off the syrup on 8 Ibs.
  6. of sugar in your preserving pan, and boil it ;
  7. when boiling, put in your plums, and take them out again as quick as pos- %ible, put them in a basin and pour the syrup hot over them.
  8. Let them stand 24 hours, then pour off the syrup as before and boil it ;
  9. put in the plums as before.
  10. This is done 3 different days;
  11. the last day pot them.
  12. Boil the syrup, as soon as boiled, pour over them and cover closely.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Vegetable peeler