Sun-preserved Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Add enough water to the sugar to make it gray.
Boil the mixture for 8 to 10 minutes.
Cook the cherries
Drop in the cherries.
Cook the cherries for about 5 minutes.
Dry and pack
Place the cherries on large platters.
Cover the cherries entirely with glass.
Place the platters in the sun for 2 to 3 days.
When the syrup is thick, pour it into jelly glasses without stirring.
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
- Sugar
- Forms the syrup that sweetens the cherries and thickens as it cooks.
- Large cherries
- Provide the main fruit, with flavor and chewy texture after drying in syrup.
The step that matters
Pour the syrup without stirring. Stirring a hot sugar syrup as it thickens can trigger crystallization, leaving grainy sugar instead of a smooth, clear syrup around the cherries.
“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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