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ftand on a little fire, to keep them warm for half an hour ; then 
put all into a bafon, and cover them, let them ftand till the next 
day; then put the fyrup from them, and fet it on the fire, and 
when it is very hot, put it on your damofins: this do twice 
a day for three days together; then draw the fyrup from the 
damofins, and lay them in an earthen difh, and fet them in an 
oven after bread is drawn ; when the oven is cold, take them 
and turn them, and lay them upon clean difties; fet them in 
the fun, or in another oven, till they are dry* 
Marmalade of quince white . 
TAKE the quinces, pare them and core them, put them 
into water as you pare them, to be kept from blacking, then 
boil them fo tender that a quarter of ft raw will go through 
them ; then take their weight of fugar, and beat them, break 
the quinces with the back of a fpoon; and then put in the fugar, 
and Itt them boil faft uncovered, till they Aide from the bottom 
of the pan : you may make pafte of the fame, only dry it in a 
ftove, drawing it out into what form you pleafe. 
To preferve apricots or plumbs green . 
TAKE your plumbs before they have ftones in them, which 
you may know by putting a pin through them ; then coddle 
them in many waters, till they are as green as grafs: peel them 
and coddle them again ; you muft take the weight of them in 
fugar, and make a fyrup > put to your fugar a jack of water t 
then put them in, fet them on the fire to boil flowly, till they 
be clear, fkimming them often, and they will be very green* 
Put them up in glaffes, and keep them for ufe. 
To preferve cherries . 
TAKE two pound of cherries, one pound and an half ©f 
fugar, half a pint of fair water, melt your fugar in it; when it h 
melted, put in your other fugar and your cherries; then boil 
them foftly, till all the fugar be melted ; then boil them faft, 
and fkim them; take them off two or three times and fhake 
them, and put them ©n again, and let them boil faft ; and 
when they are of a good colour, and the fyrup will ftand, they 
are enough. 
