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Compote of Cherries

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Compote of Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the stones from an equal quantity of white and black cherries.

  2. Boil each kind separately with sugar and water over low heat until tender.

  3. Remove the cherries from the juice and arrange them in a salad bowl, mixing the colors.

  4. Strain the juice and boil it with the remaining liquid in the pan until it becomes a clear syrup.

  5. Once the cherries are cold, turn the compote onto a dish and pour the syrup around it.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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