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To preserve Quinces.

FIrst when you gather your Quinces, you must gather such as be yellow all over, and the smooth and flat Quince in the crown is the best. First, coar your Quince and then pare it. To preserve six pound of Quinces, take six pounds of Sugar, wherof one pound of Musk-sugar, two pints of Damask Rosewater, put your Sugar into the water, and put in your Quinces, the water being cold, set it on the fire and let it seeth til you may skum it, and make them boil as fast as you can, remember to skum it as often as any skum ariseth, and take heed as neer as yon can

that the Quinces lye either the top or stalk downward, and not to lye on the side, and be alwaies pouring your syrrup upon them, and take them off a little before they be sodden, and look that they be well and clean skummed, you shall know when they be well sodden, in taking of the syrrup and let it drop upon a Sawcer, and it will jelly if they be sodden enough, and then put them in gally pots.

In this like manner you may preserve all kind of stone fruit, provided to put to three pound of Sugar, but half a pint of wa∣ter, because they be moister.

Mrs. Clere.