Name: Compote of Cherries
Ingredients: Fine large cherries; syrup; noyeau (liqueur)

Compote of Cherries

Ingredients

Fine large cherries
syrup
noyeau (liqueur)

Directions

Cut the stalks of the cherries to within ½ inch from the fruit.
Drop the cherries into a sugar boiler with syrup.
Simmer gently for 3 minutes.
Carefully pour the cherries into a basin.
When serving, arrange the cherries in a compotier with their stalks upright and 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.