Morello Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the stones from the cherries and save the juice.
Combine the cherry juice with 1 pound of sugar for each pound of cherries.
Boil the mixture and skim off any foam.
Add the cherries to the syrup and simmer until the cherries are clear.
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
- Morello cherries
- Provide the fruit and their juice, which form the base of the syrup.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the juice and thickens it into a syrup that preserves the cherries.
The step that matters
Simmer the cherries until clear. Simmering gently lets the cherries absorb the sugar syrup slowly, so they turn clear and keep their shape. Boiling hard can break the fruit apart.
“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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