Preserve (Ripe Apricot) (Old Dutch Recipe.)

Instructions

1. Make a syrup of sugar, taking the same weight of sugar as of fruit.
2. Pour the boiling syrup over the apricots, and repeat this for ten days, boiling the syrup every day. Apricots can only be preserved this way.
3. On the tenth day, make a fresh thick syrup.
4. Put the apricots in a wide-mouthed jar, pour the thick boiling syrup over them, and cork well.