Damson Cheese

Ingredients

• the damsons
• one pound and a quarter of loaf sugar
• sufficient water to cover them

Method

1. 1

   Place the damsons in a stew-jar in the oven, with sufficient water to cover them, and cook until the fruit will break; then cook sufficiently to squeeze through a fine cloth.

2. 2

   Place in a stewpan, allowing one pound and a quarter of loaf sugar to every pint of juice, and simmer gently for a couple of hours; then boil quickly for half an hour, removing all scum as it arises.

3. 3

   Place in small moulds or jars, and when cold, tie down.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The book of plain cooking (1904) by Ethel Archer, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Damson Cheese Place the damsons in a stew- jar in the oven, with sufficient water to cover them, and cook until the fruit will break ; then cook sufficiently to squeeze through a fine cloth, when place in a stewpan, allowing one pound and a quarter of loaf sugar

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