Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Pitted Sweet Cherries in Glass
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the cherries
Hand pit the cherries as you would for preserves or maraschino cherries.
Blanch the cherries in boiling water for 5 minutes.
Jar and process
Fill a jar with the pitted cherries.
Cover the cherries with 30 degree syrup.
Process the jar in boiling water for 30 minutes.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,842 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Sweet cherries
- Provide the fruit, which supplies the main flavour and texture of the finished cherries.
- 30 degree syrup
- Sweetens the fruit and fills the jar, keeping the cherries moist.
The step that matters
Process the jar in boiling water for 30 minutes. The jar must be held at a full boil for the whole time so the heat reaches the cherries and syrup throughout. Shorter or cooler processing can leave parts of the contents under-heated, which affects how well the cherries keep in storage.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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