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Preserved Cherries

Preserved cherries are cherries boiled with sugar until the mixture thickens, then jarred.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Dissolve and boil the sugar until thick.

Preserve the cherries

  1. Add the cherries with the stems on and boil until transparent.

  2. Transfer the cherries into glass jars.

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

Cherries
Provide the fruit that becomes tender and translucent as it cooks in the syrup.
White sugar
Thickens into a syrup that sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Boiling the cherries until transparent. Boil long enough for sugar to replace the water in the fruit; too short leaves cherries cloudy and prone to spoiling, while overcooking can make them shrivel or turn tough.

“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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