A Very Nice Preserve of Damsons

Ingredients

• To every quart of damsons
• 1/2 lb loaf sugar

Instructions

1. Put the damsons (which should be picked from the stalks and quite free from blemishes) into a jar, with pounded sugar sprinkled amongst them in the above proportion;
2. tie the jar closely down, set it in a saucepan of cold water; bring it gradually to boil, and simmer gently until the damsons are soft, without being broken.
3. Let them stand till cold;
4. then strain the juice from them, boil it up well, strain it through a jelly-bag, and pour it over the fruit.
5. Let it cool, cover with oiled papers, and the jars with tissue-paper brushed over on both sides with the white of an egg, and store away in a dry cool place.