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GREENGAGES, COMPOTE OF (a German recipe)

Take one pint of very ripe greengages, peel off the skins, and put the plums into a glass dish, with half a pound of pounded loaf sugar strewn over them. In two or three hours sufficient syrup will have been drawn from them. Probable cost, 6d. Sufficient for three or four persons.

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