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Spiced Cherries

A preserve of cherries spiced with mixed spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Spiced Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add spices to cherry preserves just before pouring into jelly glasses.

  2. Use about 2 teaspoons of mixed spices for each quart of preserves.

  3. Serve with game and poultry.

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

Cherry preserves
Provides the sweet, fruity base and body of the dish.
Mixed spices
Adds warm aroma and flavour to the sweet cherry preserves.

“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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