Damson, or Red Plum Solid (Good)

Instructions

1. Pour the juice from some damsons which have stood for a night in a very cool oven, or been stewed in a jar placed in a pan of water.
2. Weigh it and put it into a preserving-pan with a pound and four ounces of pearmains (or of any other fine boiling apples), pared, cored, and quartered, to each pound of the juice.
3. Boil these together, keeping them well stirred, from twenty-five to thirty minutes.
4. Then add the sugar, and when it is nearly dissolved, continue the boiling for ten minutes.
5. This, if done with exactness, will give a perfectly smooth and firm preserve, which may be moulded in small shapes, and turned out for table.
6. The juice of any good red plum may be used for it instead of that of damsons.
7. Proportions: To each pound clear damson-juice, 1-1/4 lb. pearmains (or other good apples), pared and cored: 25 to 30 minutes. Sugar, 14 oz.: 10 minutes.