Compote of Damsons
From The household gas cookery book, 1900
Serves 6
Serve with custard or whipped cream.
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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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
half a pound of loaf sugar into one pint of L 2 THE HOUSEHOLD 164 water; melt the sugar on the gas by simmering it, then put in the white of an egg, and skim it. Yv hen the syrup has boiled fifteen minutes, put in one quart of damsons
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