Damson Cheese (another way)

Ingredients

• two pounds of fruit
• half a pound of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Place the fruit unskinned in a stone jar in a saucepan of water.

2. 2

   Set the pan over the fire, and allow it to boil until the fruit appears dry; take out the stones, pour off some of the liquid, and to every two pounds of fruit add half a pound of sugar; stir it well, and allow it to simmer slowly for two hours, after which, boil it quickly for half an hour.

3. 3

   The jam may then be poured into pots, and covered so as to totally exclude the air.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 460. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Damson Cheese (another way). — Place the fruit unskinned in a stone jar in a saucepan of water. Set the pan over the fire, and allow it to boil until the fruit ajjpears dry; take out the stones, poui- off some of the liquid, and to every two pounds of fruit add half a pound of sugar

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