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MORELIiA Cherries

A simple cherry preserve made by sweetening cherries with powdered sugar and simmering briefly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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MORELIiA Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the stalks from the cherries but do not pit them.

  2. Weigh the cherries and add an equal amount of powdered sugar.

  3. Strew the sugar over the cherries and let them sit for 30 minutes.

Cook

  1. Gently transfer the cherries to a preserving pan.

  2. Simmer the cherries softly for 5 to 7 minutes.

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

Cherries
Provide the fruit that softens and releases juice to form the syrup.
Powdered sugar
Draws moisture out of the cherries and sweetens them, helping form a syrup.

The step that matters

Simmer the cherries softly for 5 to 7 minutes. Gentle heat softens the fruit and dissolves the sugar without boiling hard, which can toughen the cherries and make the syrup cloudy or overcooked.

“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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