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Greengages, to Candy

Make a syrup of a pound of sugar boiled with half a pint of water. Put the greengages, before they are quite ripe, in this, and boil for a few minutes till they are tender, but unbroken. Take them out, drain them, and sift pounded loaf sugar over them until they look quite white. Put them on dishes in a cool oven, and keep turning them about, and sifting more sugar over them, until they are dry. Time, about fifteen minutes to boil the fruit. Probable cost of greengages, when plentiful, 6d. per quart.