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Wild Cherry Juice

A juice made by cooking wild cherries, straining, sweetening, and boiling before bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Wild Cherry Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the juice

  1. Cook wild cherries in enough water to cover them until soft.

  2. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Sweeten the juice to taste.

  2. Heat the juice to boiling point and then bottle it.

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

Wild cherries
Provide the main flavour and colour of the juice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the tartness of 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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