This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Ingredients. - One and a half pounds of prunes, two table-spoonfuls of cranberry juice, sugar to taste, short paste.
Method. - Scald the prunes, remove the stones, and take out the kernels; put the fruit and kernels into the cranberry juice, and add the sugar; simmer for ten minutes, when cold make the tarts. Any stone fruit can be cooked in the same way.
 
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