Another Way for Damsons or Bullace
From The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts
Keep jars in a cool dry place.
Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts (1900), page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Another Way for Damsons or Bullace. Choose steen pots if you can get them, which are of equal size top and bottom, put the fruit in about a quarter up, then strew in a quarter of the sugar, then another quantity of the fruit, and so on till all of both are in. The proportion of sugar is three pounds to nine of fruit; set the jars in an oven not over hot, and bake the fruit through ; when cold, put a piece of clean scraped stick into the middle of the jar, 22 then pour melted mutton fat over the top, having covered the fruit with white paper ; pour it full half an inch thic
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