Apricots to Preserve Green

Ingredients

• Lay vine or apricot leaves at the bottom of your pan
• fill with spring water
• pour off as much of it as will be necessary, and boil with more sugar to make a rich syrup

Method

1. 1

   Lay vine or apricot leaves at the bottom of your pan, then fruit, and so alternately till full, the upper layer being thick with leaves; then fill with spring water, and cover down, that no steam may come out.

2. 2

   Set the pan at a distance from the fire, so that in four or five hours they may be only soft, but not cracked.

3. 3

   Make a thin syrup of some of the water and drain the fruit.

4. 4

   When both are cold, put the fruit into the pan and the syrup to it; put the pan at a proper distance from the fire till the apricots green, but on no account boil or crack; remove them very carefully into a pan with the syrup for two or three days; then pour off as much of it as will be necessary, and boil with more sugar to make a rich syrup, and put a little sliced ginger into it.

5. 5

   When cold, and the thin syrup has all drained from the fruit, pour the thick over it.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APRICOTS, to preserve Green. — Lay vine or apricot leaves at the bottom of your pan, then fruit, and so alternately till full, the upper layer being thick with leaves ; then fill with spring water, and cover down, that no steam may come out. Set the pan at a distance from the fire, so that in four or five hours they may be only soft, but not cracked. Make a thin syrup of some of the water and drain the fruit. When both are cold, put the fruit into the pan and the syrup to it ; put the pan at a proper distance from the fire till the apricots green, but on no APR 27 ARK Account boil or crack ; remove them very carefully into a pan with the syrup, for two or three days ; then pour off as much of it as will be necessary, and boil with more sugar to make a rich syrup

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