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This way the jam is greatly superior in colour and flavour to that which is made
by putting the sugar in at first.
Another way.--Put the fruit in a jar in a kettle of water, or on a hot hearth,
till the juice will run from it, then take away a quarter of a pint from every
pound of fruit; boil and bruise it half an hour, then put in the weight of the
fruit in sugar, and, adding the same quantity of currant-juice, boil it to a
strong jelly.
The raspberry-juice will serve to put into brandy, or may be boiled with its
weight in sugar for making the jelly for raspberry-ice or cream.
To preserve Greengages.
Choose the largest, when they begin to soften; split them without paring, and
strew a part of the sugar which yon have previously weighed an equal quantity
of. Blanch the kernels with a small sharp knife. Next day, pour the syrup from
the fruit, and boil it with the other sugar, six or eight minutes, very gently;
skim, and add the plums mid kernels. Simmer till clear, taking off any scum that
rises; put the fruit singly into small pots, and pour the syrup and kernels to
it. If yon would candy it, do not add the syrup, but observe the directions that
will be given for candying fruit; some may be done each way.
Damson Cheese.
Bake or boil the fruit in a stone jar in a sauce-pan of water, or on a hot
hearth. Pour off some of the juice, and to every two pounds of fruit weigh half
a pound or sugar. Set the fruit over a fire in the pan, let it boil quickly till
it begin to look dry; take out the stones, and add the sugar, stir it well in,
and simmer two hours slowly, then boil it quickly half an hour, till the sides
of the pan candy; pour the jam then into polling-pans or dishes, about an inch
thick, so that it may cut firm. If the skins be disliked, then the juice is not
to be taken out; but after the first process, the fruit is to be pulped through
a very coarse sieve with the juice, and managed as above. The stones are to be
cracked, or some of them, and the kernals boiled in the jam. All the juice may
be
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