Name: Cherry Honey
Ingredients: 1 cup ground cherries; 2 cups sugar

Cherry Honey

Ingredients

1 cup ground cherries
2 cups sugar

Directions

Combine ground cherries and sugar in a pot.
Boil for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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

Ground cherries: Provide the fruit flavor and bulk of the spread, releasing juice as they cook.
Sugar: Sweetens the mixture and thickens it as it cooks down to a syrupy consistency.

“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.