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Anne Bayne booke [of recipes] circa 1700
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(56) To dry black pear plums to looke as if they came from the trees. Take your plums & slit them & to 3 pound of plums put a pound of fine powder sugar. then put them into a pankin a laier of plums & a laier of sugar then set them into a slow oven & let them stand till they be cleare & very soft & let them stand in till the next day. then open them with your finger at the side. & take out the stone & fill them with your Jam & put in the stone & close them with your finger. you must leave on the stalks then dip them in hot water & lay them in laiers on a pewter dish. & when you have done baking set them into your oven to dry. make the Jam you fill them with on the smallest of your plums & cut them in peices & to a pound of your plums put a pound of sugar. & boile them till they be very stif. & let it stand in your stove till they be pretty dry before you fill them. if you please you may dry some of them without stones you must not dip them but flat them & lay them on a stove to dry they are very pretty so. when you lie them on one pewter dish you must cover them with another & besure you oven be not too hot when you set them in.
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(56) To dry black pear plums to looke as if they came from the trees. Take your plums & slit them & to 3 pound of plums put a pound of fine powder sugar. then put them into a pankin a laier of plums & a laier of sugar then set them into a slow oven & let them stand till they be cleare & very soft & let them stand in till the next day. then open them with your finger at the side. & take out the stone & fill them with your Jam & put in the stone & close them with your finger. you must leave on the stalks then dip them in hot water & lay them in laiers on a pewter dish. & when you have done baking set them into your oven to dry. make the Jam you fill them with on the smallest of your plums & cut them in peices & to a pound of your plums put a pound of sugar. & boile them till they be very stif. & let it stand in your stove till they be pretty dry before you fill them. if you please you may dry some of them without stones you must not dip them but flat them & lay them on a stove to dry they are very pretty so. when you lie them on one pewter dish you must cover them with another & besure you oven be not too hot when you set them in.
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