Marmalade of Damsons Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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Marmalade of Damsons Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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Marmalade of Damsons
Take two Pounds of Damsons, and one Pound of Pippins pared and cut in pieces, bake them in an Oven with a little sliced Ginger, when they are tender, poure them into a Cullender, and let the Syrup drop from them, then strain them, and take as much sugar as the Pulp doth weigh, boil it to a Candy height with a little water, then put in your Pulp, and boil it till it will come from the bottom of the Skillet, and so put it up

Marmalade of Damsons Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe
The above Old dessert recipe for Marmalade of Damsons is written in totally different way to today's recipe books.

There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text
Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified.
Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking

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