Prunes in Armagnac

This is an essential recipe, since the prunes and their Armagnac syrup are used in Prune and Armagnac Ice Cream, the Pastry Cake Filled With Apples and Prunes in Armagnac, and in various fruit flans and omelets. They are excellent, too, eaten alone, after which one should drink off the thick, dark, aromatic syrup as slowly as possible, the longer to savor it.

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