Plum Conserve

Ingredients

• 1 basket of blue plums
• 5 or 6 muskmelons (depends on the size)
• juice of 2 lemons
• 2 cups shelled walnuts or pecans
• 5 pounds sugar

Method

1. 1

   Seed the plums, cook the skins and pulp with the sugar, and if needed, add a little water to keep from burning.

2. 2

   Cut the melons in small pieces.

3. 3

   Add after the plums have cooked a while, especially if very ripe.

4. 4

   Add the lemon juice and cook until thick.

5. 5

   Add the nuts the last ten minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Conserve 1 basket red plums 1 pound seeded raisins 3 oranges and 1 lemon, run through the grinder 4 parts of fruit to 3 of sugar Boil until thick. Cecelia E. Otis (Lambda). Plum Conserve 1 basket of blue plums 5 or 6 muskmelons (depends on the size) juice of 2 lemons 2 cups shelled walnuts or pecans 5 pounds sugar

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