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To make clere cakes of any Fruit

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Pick the fruit and put it into a stone pott
close covered let it stand in a Boyling skil-
let of water kept boyling all the while till the
Juce is come well out which will be about 2 or 3
hours a cording as the fruit is in ripness for
the riper the fruit is the sooner it will be done then
pour it through a strainer and lett so much as
will come cleare through be saved by it self then
take the weight and quantity of sugar and it
must be hard suger and if it be for any white
thing it must be double refined and dip it in
to the water and when tis a little melted boyle it
to a candy till it begins to be sugar a gaine then
take it of the fire and put in the Juce and stur
it very well together and set on the fire again
againe and keep it stiring till it be ready to
boyle but do not let it boyl then take it of the fire
and put it into the store 3 days or more as
the shall see cause then turn them out