Ingredients
- two pounde of it to one of sugar
Directions
BOIL the quinces in water until soft, let them cool, and rub all the pulp through a sieve: put two pounde of it to one of sugar, pound a little cochineal, sift it through fine muslin, and mix it with the quince to give a colour; pick out the seeds, tie them in a muslin bag, and boil them with the marmalade: when it is a ihick jelly, take out the seeds, and put it in pots.
THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE. 169
THE most beautiful cherries to preserve, are the carnation and common light red, with short stems; select the finest that are not too ripe; take an equal weight with the cherries of double refined sugar, make it into a syrup, and preserve them without stoning, and with the stems on; if they be done care- fully, and the "Directions for preserving" closely attended to, the stems will not come off, and they will be so transparent that the stones may be seen.