Cherry Jam
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the fruit
Choose 2 pounds of very ripe cherries and remove the stones and stalks.
Place the cherries in a pan over medium heat and reduce them by half.
Make the jam
Clarify 1 pound of sugar and boil it until it reaches the soft crack stage.
Add the cherry pulp to the sugar and mix well.
Return the mixture to the heat and stir until you can see the bottom of the pan clearly.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit flavor, pulp, and natural acidity that give the jam its body.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps thicken and preserve the jam by binding water.
The step that matters
Return the mixture to the heat and stir until you can see the bottom of the pan clearly.. The jam thickens as water evaporates and the sugar concentrates. Stirring keeps it from scorching, and a clear pan bottom shows the mixture is thick enough to set properly.
“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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