To Dry Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the cherries
Stone the cherries and save the juice.
Weigh the cherries and combine the juice with the brown sugar in a pot.
Stew and syrup
Boil the mixture.
Add the cherries and stew for 15 to 20 minutes.
Remove the cherries.
Drain off the syrup.
Dry and store
Lay the cherries in dishes to dry in the sun, turning them frequently.
As they dry, pour the syrup over the cherries a little at a time.
Once all the syrup is used, store the cherries in pots.
Sprinkle powdered sugar between layers.
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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Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit that softens during stewing and dries into a chewy, concentrated texture.
- Brown sugar
- Sweetens the cherries and, as the syrup is absorbed, helps preserve them and add sweetness.
The step that matters
Stewing the cherries in the syrup. Stewing for the full 15 to 20 minutes lets the sugar syrup penetrate the fruit. Cooking too briefly leaves the cherries under-sweetened and less preserved, while overcooking can break them down and make them 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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