Take as much Sugar as they weigh and put not so much water to them as you did to the green for they will yield liquor of them selves boyle them not altogether so leasurely as you did the other if you do the Sirrop will turn red and so when you have boyled them take them up and pot them as aforesaid.
434. To preserve Damosens Red or Black Plummes.
Take as much Sugar as they do weigh and as much water as will make a Sirrop to cover them then boyle them a little while in the Sirrop close covered and turn them very often for spoting them set them all night in their own Sirrop and on the morrow set them upon a pot of seething water and let them boyle no faster then the water seethe under them then when they be through sweet and tender take them up and pot them but let the Sirrop be boyled till it will button upon a dish side before it be poted.
435. To preserve Grapes Barberryes or Goosberrys.
Take as much Sugar as they do weigh and somewhat more and beat it very fine take a preserving pan or skillet lay a lay of Sugar and a lay of the fruit till you have laid all then take 6 spoonfulls of fair water as much as will wet the bottom of your pan then boyle them as fast as you can untill they be clear then boyle the sirrop until it will button upon a dish side then when they are cold pot them up together.
436. To preserve Quinces white.
Pare them and core them and take as much Sugar as they weigh & to every pound of Sugar put but a wine pint of water put your quinces Sugar & water together and boyle them as fast as you can uncover’d and this may you preserve pippins.
437. To keep Quinces raw all the year.
Take some of the worst quinces and cut them in small pieces boyle them in water till it be strong of the quince put into in the boyling to every gallon 2 spoonfulls of Salt as much of english honey half a pint of white wine vinegar then strain it and when it is cold put it into a wooden vessel and take as many of your best quinces as will go into that liquor then stop them up very close that no air get into them and they will keep all the year.