Stewed Fruit

Ingredients

• 1 pint plums, or any other seasonable fruit
• 2 oz. brown sugar
• pint water

Method

1. 1

   Boil the water and the sugar until it becomes syrupy, about 16 minutes; put in the fruit, and simmer until it is tender; dish round the rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEWED FRUIT. ^ lb. Carolina rice 2 oz. sugar 1 teaspoouful vanilla ^ pint water ^ pint milk I teaapoonful salt Wash the rice thoroughly, put it into an enamelled pan with the water and salt ; stand this pan in another saucepan containing some boiling water ’ boil until all the water is absorbed, then add the milk and sugar, and boil until this is absorbed ; by this time the rice should be quite tender, if not a little more milk may be added ; add the vanilla, press well into a mould that has been soaked in cold water ; turn out at once, and serve round the edge some stewed fruit as below. No. 238 STEWED FRUIT. 1 pint plums, or any o^her 2 oz. brown sugar

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