Preparation:
- Pare the fruit, leave it whole and put on to boil with sweetened water. Add a few cloves (remove the heads), also a stick of cinnamon bark.
- Boil the peaches until tender, then take up with a perforated skimmer and lay them in your fruit dish.
- Boil the syrup until thick, then pour over the peaches.
- Eat cold with sweet cream. Common cheap peaches make a very nice dessert, cooked in the above manner, clings especially, which cannot be used to cut up.
