To Confit Peaches after the Spanish Fashion

English source from 1597, "To Confit Peaches after the Spanish Fashion"

The Second part of the good Hus-wiues Iewell (England, 1597)

To co[n]nfite Peaches after the Spanish fashion.. Take great and faire Peaches and pill them clean, cut them in péeces and so lay them vpon a table abroad in the Sun the space of two daies, turning them euerye morning and night, & put the[n] hot into a Inlep of Sugar wel sodden, and prepared as is aforesaid, and after you haue taken them out set them againe in the Sun turning them often vntill they bee well dried, this doon, put them againe into the Inlep, then set them in the sun vntill they haue gotten a faire bark or crust, and the[n] you may keepe them in boxes for winter.

Tellina pointed this recipe out to me. She lives on the surface of the sun, aka the Barony of Rivenoak (Chico, CA). I live in the foggy City of St. Francis, so I used my dehydrator on the lowest (105 F) setting. Slice peaches. Dehydrate for six hours. Boil in a 2 to 1 (sugar to water) syrup for 10 minutes. Put back in the dehydrator for 12 hours. Beautiful.