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Sour Plums or Sweet Pickled Peaches

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

This recipe also hails from Yorkshire, via Ross-on-Wye, and is over one hundred years old.

Ingredients

  • Ripe plums,damsons, peaches, nectarines, pears or green figs, but not over ripe 4 lb.
  • best white wine vinegar

Method

  1. Wipe the fruit (especially if you are using peaches, to get off the down).
  2. Prick it all over with a needle.
  3. Put into a large jar or bowl.
  4. Boil the vinegar and sugar for 15 minutes and clear with white of egg.
  5. Pour this over the fruit as hot as possible, cover tightly and stand till next day.
  6. Then pour off

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