To Preserve Damsons
Take Damsons before they be full ripe, but new gathered off the Tree, allow to every pound of them a pound of sugar, put a little Rose-water to them, and set them in the bottome of your pan, one by one, boyle them with a soft fire, and as they seeth strew your sugar upon them, and let them boyle till the Syrupe be thick enough, then while the Syrupe is yet warme, take the Plums out, and put them in a gally pot, Syrupe and all.