Wet Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the cherries and remove the stems.
In a pot, combine equal parts sugar and water to create a syrup.
Cook
Add the cherries to the syrup and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer until cherries are tender.
Store
Cool and store in jars.
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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What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit that softens and absorbs the syrup's sweetness during simmering.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the dish and, dissolved in water, forms the syrup that preserves the fruit.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar to form the syrup and carries heat to soften the cherries.
The step that matters
Simmering until tender. Simmering gently softens the cherry flesh so it absorbs syrup evenly. Boiling too hard can break the skins and make the fruit mushy.
“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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