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Compote of Cherries

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Compote of Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the stalks of the cherries to within ½ inch from the fruit.

  2. Drop the cherries into a pot of syrup.

  3. Gently simmer the cherries for 3 minutes.

  4. Carefully pour the cherries into a basin.

  5. When serving, arrange the cherries in a compote dish with their stalks upright and out of the syrup.

  6. Add a little syrup flavored with noyeau.

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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