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To dry Damsons, or any other Plumms.

FIrst pare your Damsons or Plums very thin, and as you pare them put them into cold water, then when you have pa∣red them make new water scalding hot, and put your Plumms into the water and so let them scald without boyling until they be tender, and whilst they be scalding turn in the water with a silver spoon, or with a clean wooden Ladle, then take them forth and put them in fair cold water again, in the mean time make ready your syr••up with clarified Sugar and Rosewater, ac∣cording to the quantity of your Plumms, put your Plumms into that syrrup, and so let them boyl to a good height as if you would preserve them, then put them into some clean Vessell, and let them stand so four and twenty hours, the next day make

some new syrrup with clarified Sugar and Rosewater, and dry them again to a full height, to dry or candy, take them forth and lay them on a clean board, and cast some fine Sugar through a fine Lawn upon them, and so put them in a Stove to dry.

Your Peach and Apricot must thus be done, but one syrrup will suffice and not boyled for fear of breaking.

Mr. Birch.