The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers ..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode ...
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
71. To make conserve of Damsons.
Take ripe Damsons and put them into scalding water, and half an hour after set them over the fire till they break; then strain them through a Cullender, and let them cool therein, then strain them (through a peice of Canvas) from their stones and skins, and then set them over the fire again, then put to them a good quantity of red Wine, and so boil it often stirring it till it be thick, and when it is almost boil d•e∣nough, put in a convenient proportion of Sugar, and stir it very well together, and then put it into your gally-pots.
