To Preserve Pares, Pare-Plums, Plums
First take two pound and a halfe of fine sugar, and beat it small, and put it into a pretty brasse pot, with twenty spoonfulls of Rose-water, and when it boyleth skim it clean, then take it off the fire, and let it stand while it be almost cold, then take two pound of Pare-plums, and wipe them upon a faire cloath, and put them into your Syrupe when it is almost cold, and so set them upon the fire againe, and let them boyle as softly as you can, for when they are boyled enough, the kernels will be yellow, then take them up, but let your Syrupe boyle till it be thick; then put your Plums upon the fire againe, and let them boyle a walme or two, so take them from the fire, and let them stand in the vessell all night, and in the morning put them into your pot or glasse, and cover them close.