Fig Syrup

Ingredients

• two ounces of sugar
• half a pint of water
• the juice of a lemon
• a liqueur-glass of maraschino or curagoa

Method

1. 1

   Put sugar into an enamelled pan with water.

2. 2

   Set on fire, and when syrup boils, add figs.

3. 3

   Reduce to simmering for five or six minutes.

4. 4

   Take figs out, lay in a glass dish, add lemon juice and maraschino to syrup, and pour over figs.

5. 5

   Set to cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty dinners (1895) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two ounces of sugar into an enamelled pan with half a pint of water. Set on the fire, and when the syrup boils put in the figs, reduce to simmering, and in five or six minutes the figs will be done ; take them out, lay them in a glass dish, add the juice of a lemon and a liqueur-glass of maraschino or curagoa

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