Canned Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the cherries thoroughly.
If desired, remove the pits from the cherries.
Cook and sweeten
Cook the cherries in water until tender.
Add sugar to the cooked cherries, adjusting based on their sweetness.
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 and flavor, softening into tender pieces when cooked in water.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the cherries and balances their natural tartness.
The step that matters
Sweetening after cooking. Cherries vary widely in sweetness, so the sugar should be added to the cooked fruit in stages and tasted. Sugar dissolves best in warm fruit, and adding too much cannot be undone easily.
“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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