{"id":7861,"slug":"preserved-damson-plums","title":"PRESERVED DAMSON PLUMS","description":"From The International Jewish Cook Book by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum.","ingredients_raw":["Damson plums","Sugar: one pound to each pound of fruit","A gill of water for each pound of sugar"],"ingredients_norm":["damson plum","sugar: pound to each pound of fruit","water for each pound of sugar"],"steps":["Pick the plums over carefully, removing every one that has a decayed spot or blemish. Leave the stems on.","After picking the fruit over, wash it carefully in cold water; then weigh it and allow one pound of sugar to each pound of fruit.","Put a gill of water in the preserving kettle for each pound of sugar, stand the kettle over a moderate fire and add the sugar.","Stir it almost constantly with a wooden spoon until the sugar melts; then turn on a little more heat and let the melted sugar boil gently until it is a thick syrup.","Stir, and skim it frequently.","When the required thickness (which should be like syrup used for griddle cakes) put the plums in the boiling syrup and let them cook gently for half an hour; then skim out the plums and put them in glass jars, filling each jar half full.","Let the syrup boil till almost as thick as jelly, then pour it in the jars, filling them quite full.","Fasten the tops on and stand the jars upside down until the preserves are cold; then put them where they are to be kept for the winter."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350","source_ref":"pg:12350:w101:5","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"8f3e1aa79da8982b3893624801d668143b502d3b62bdeb517ded6b5b60531241","created_at":"2026-08-02T17:05:13Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe, reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/preserved-damson-plums"}