The Art of Confectionary / Shewing the Various Methods of Preserving All Sorts of Fruits, Dry and Liquid; viz. Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Golden Pippins, Wardens, Apricots Green, Almonds, Goosberries, Cherries, Currants, Plumbs, Rasberries, Peaches, Walnuts, Nectarines, Figs, Grapes, &c., Flowers and Herbs; as Violets, Angelica, Orange-Flowers, &c.; Also How to Make All Sorts of Biscakes, Maspins, Sugar-Works, and Candies. With the Best Methods of Clarifying, and the Different Ways of Boiling Sugar.

by Edward Lambert

Take the Goosberries when full grown, wash them, and put them into your preserving Pan, with as much Spring-water as will almost cover them, and boil them very quick all to a Pommish; then strew them on a Hair-sieve over an earthen Pot or Pan, and press out all the Juice; then to every Pound of this Paste, take one Pound and two Ounces of Sugar, and boil it till it cracks; then take it from the Fire and put in your Paste, and mix it well over a slow Fire till the Sugar is very well incorporated with the Paste; then scum it and fill your Paste-Pots, then scum them again, and when cold, put them into the Stove, and when crusted on the Top, turn them, and set them in the Stove again, and when a little dry, cut them in long Pieces, and set them to dry quite; and when so crusted that they will bear touching, turn them on Sieves and dry the other Side, then put them into your Box.

Note, You may make them red or green, by putting the Colour when the Sugar and Paste is all mixed, giving it a Warm altogether.

Goosberry Clear-Cakes.

Goosberry Clear-Cakes are made after the same Manner as the Paste, with this Difference only, that you strain the Jelly through the Bag before you weigh it for Use.

To dry Cherries.

Stone your Cherries and weigh them, to eight Pounds of Cherries put two Pounds of Sugar, boil it till it blows very strong: put the Cherries to the Sugar, and heat them by Degrees till the Sugar is thoroughly melted, for when the Cherries come in, it will so cool the Sugar that it will seem like Glew, and should you put it on a quick Fire at first, it will endanger the Burning; when you find the Sugar is all melted, then boil them as quick as possible till the Sugar flies all over them, then scum them, and set them by in an earthen Pan; for where the Sugar is so thin, it will be apt to cancker in a Copper or Brass, or stain in a Silver; the next Day drain them, and boil the Sugar till it rises, then put in your Cherries, and give them a Boil, scum them and set them by till the next Day, then drain them and lay them out on Sieves, and dry them in a very hot Stove.

To preserve Cherries Liquid.

Take the best Morello Cherries when ripe, either stone them or clip their Stalks; and to every Pound take a Pound of Sugar, and boil it till it blows very strong, then put in the Cherries, and by Degrees, bring them to boil as fast as you can, that the Sugar may come all over them, scum them and set them by; the next Day boil some more Sugar to the same Degree, and put some Jelly of Currants, drawn as hereafter directed; For Example, if you boil one Pound of Sugar, take one Pint of Jelly, put in the Cherries and the Syrup to the Sugar; then add the Jelly, and give all a Boil together; scum them, and fill your Glasses or Pots; take Care as they cool, to disperse them equally, or otherwise they will swim all to the Top.