Damson Drops

Ingredients

• some damsons
• some crushed lump sugar

Method

1. 1

   Pick the stalks from some damsons, wipe them and put them into a moderately-heated oven to bake, but do not let them burn.

2. 2

   When sufficiently done take off the skin and remove the stone; add some crushed lump sugar to the pulp, and mix until it is a stiff paste.

3. 3

   Drop the mixture upon paper in small quantities of uniform size, and put them into a moderately-heated oven to dry.

4. 4

   When sufficiently dry, take them out and turn them down over a sieve, when, by damping the paper, the drops will fall on the sieve, and must be again hardened in a cool oven.

5. 5

   Store them in a box with paper between each layer.

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 Drops.— Pick the stalks from some damsons, wipe them and put them into a moderately-heated oven to bake, but do not let them bm-st. When sufficiently done take off the slcin and remove the stone ; add some crushed lump sugar

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