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Cherry Water

Cherry Water is a chilled beverage made from boiled cherries and diluted with cold sterilized water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pit the cherries and place them in a saucepan.

Make the cherry juice

  1. Boil the cherries in a little water for a few minutes.

  2. Strain the mixture through a muslin jelly bag and let it cool.

Finish

  1. Mix ½ cup of the cherry juice with ½ cup of cold sterilized water.

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

Good ripe cherries
Provide the main cherry flavour and colour for the water.
Water
Softens the cherries and draws out their juice during boiling.

“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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