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Damson Drops

Pick the stalks from some damsons, wipe them and put them into a moderately-heated oven to bake, but do not let them burst. When sufficiently done take off the skins, and remove the stones; add some crushed lump sugar to the pulp, and mix until it is a stiff paste. Drop the mixture upon paper in small quantities of uniform size, and put them into a moderately heated oven to dry. When sufficiently dry, take them out and turn them down over a sieve, when, by damping the paper, the drops will fall on the sieve, and must be again hardened in a cool oven. Store them in a box with paper between each layer. They will keep a long time in this way if the air be excluded from them.