Maybe the author was referring to the volume of prunes after they are soaked.
I’m not clear why the directions refer to 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 tablespoon of lemon for each two cups of prunes. One-half pound of prunes is about 1 cup of prunes. Here’s the original recipe: Source: The New Cookery (1921) by Lenna Frances Cooper Back then (and even when I was young) prunes were very dry and needed extensive soaking and cooking to make tender stewed prunes whereas today many supermarket prunes are very moist when taken out of the package and need to be stewed for only a few minutes. I’m a little surprised when an author puts such a simple recipe in a cookbook – though I also find it fascinating how basic foods have changed over the past hundred years.
Hundred-year-old cookbooks sometimes contain very basic recipes, such as a recipe for stewed prunes.
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