Name: Frozen Cherries
Ingredients: 2 quarts dark red cherries, pitted; 2 pounds sugar; 1 quart water

Frozen Cherries

Ingredients

2 quarts dark red cherries, pitted
2 pounds sugar
1 quart water

Directions

Prepare

Pour the sugar over the cherries and let it stand for at least 1 hour to dissolve.
Add the water and mix well.

Freeze

Freeze the mixture.

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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What each ingredient does

Cherries: Provide the main fruit flavor and bulk of the dessert.
Sugar: Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice as it dissolves, forming a syrup.

“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.