How To Preserve Apricots

Take any quantity of apricots and as much loaf-sugar in very fine powder. Pare the apricots and put them in a glass or stone vessel with the sugar; let them stand all night together, or till a great part of the sugar is dissolved. Then put the whole in a preserving-pan, and set it over a gentle fire; let them boil very slowly, and when the syrup is thick enough, take them up and put them into glasses. When the syrup is cold pour it over them.

How To Make Apricot-Chips

Take sugar and water, and boil them to a very thick syrup; then pare some apricots, and cut them into thin slices; then put them into the syrup, where they must remain till they look clear. Afterwards let them stand a day or two; then take them out and lay them on tin plates, and dry them in a warm oven.

How To Make Morello Cherry-Cakes

Take what quantity of these cherries you please, and stone them; then boil them in a preserving-pan, till they are as thick as a paste. Afterwards to every pound of cherries add a pound of sugar, and set them again over the fire till the sugar is dis-solved. This done, put them in glasses and dry them.

How To Make Clear Currant, Or Rasberry-Cakes

Beat the currants or rasberries in a mortar, and strain out the juice through a jelly-bag. Then set it on the fire, and as it boils scum it well. Then to every pound of juice add a pound and fix ounces of double refined sugar; let them stand over the fire till the sugar is dissolved, without boiling. Put the mixture into glasses and stove it, or set them in the sun to dry.

How To Keep Plums All The Year

Take any quantity of green plums that are not spotted, and put them into wide-mouth'd bottles; placing at the bottom a layer of sugar; then a layer of plumbs; and so on till they are filled. This done, stop them up close, and they will grow ripe in the bottles.

How To Dry Gooseberries

Take gooseberries that begin to be ripe, and boil them over a quick fire, in a syrup made with su gar and water, till they are clear. Then let them stand in the syrup four or five days in a warm place. Afterwards take them out, lay them on sieves, and set them in the fun a day or two to dry, taking care to turn them now and then.

How To Make Gooseberry-Cakes

Put green gooseberries into a stone jugg, and cover them close; then set the jugg in a pot of boiling water, keep it constantly boiling over a quick fire; and after some time pour the liquor out of the jugg that proceeds from the gooseberries. Repeat this process till no more liquor can be got, and then strain it. This done, set the liquor over the fire till it boils; then add the same weight of syrup of sugar, made strong enough to rope. When they are well united, put them in glasses and dry them.

How To Preserve Green Figs

Put the figs into boiling water, and boil them till they are tender; then take a pound of sugar and a pint of water, and boil them together for a while. Then put in a pound of figs, and boil them an hour over a flow fire. Repeat this three days together, making the same syrup boil before you put in the figs. When they are enough they will look glossy. Two days after set them in the stove and let them dry.