Cherry Rock
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Boil the sugar until it reaches the crack stage.
Remove from heat before the syrup changes color.
Set the candy
Drop in the warmed cherries.
Pour the mixture into greased pans or onto a slab, spreading it to about 2 inches thick.
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
- Sugar
- Forms the hard, glassy candy structure as the syrup cooks and cools.
- Candied cherries
- Provide flavor, color and chewy pieces suspended in the clear candy.
The step that matters
Remove from heat before the syrup changes color. Sugar keeps darkening and can turn bitter once it continues cooking past the target stage, so pulling the pan off heat in time protects the flavor and color.
“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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