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To Candy Cherries

A method of preserving cherries by boiling them in a sugar syrup until candied.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Candy Cherries

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil sugar with enough water to dissolve it until it reaches a candy height.

Candy and dry

  1. Gently add the pitted cherries to the syrup.

  2. Move the cherries gently in the syrup until almost cold.

  3. Remove the cherries and dry them by the fire or in a cool oven.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cherries
Provide the fruit that is candied and dried into a preserved sweet.
Sugar
Forms the syrup that soaks into the fruit, sweetening it and helping preserve it.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup to candy height. Sugar syrup must reach the right concentration so that, once cooled, it coats and preserves the cherries without crystallising or staying runny. Too little boiling leaves the fruit wet and prone to spoiling.

“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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