The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot.

  • Abbot, Robert, active 1800.
Date:
[between 1790 and 1799?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice ... With a variety of other useful and elegant articles / by Robert Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    four hours in cold fpring water, then take them out and put them into fome fugar, give them a gentle boil, take them off, and fet them by for ufe. N. B. They are convenient for put- ting under fruit in plates* To preferve Green Grapes. Having felected the larged and bed grapes before ripe, cut a fmall flit in each, and fcald them ; after remaining two days in the water they are fealded in, drain, put them into a thin fugar j give them a heat over a flow fire, and thus proceed for three days: then drain them, and adding to the fyrup fome fugar, boiled to the highefl degree of what is called Mown, put in the grapes, and let all boil up together; fkim well, and fet them by for ufe. To-