Sweet Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prepare a quart bottle.
Boil the water in a pot.
Fill the bottle
Add the cherries to the bottle.
Prepare syrup at 19° density.
Pour the syrup over the cherries.
Seal and boil
Seal the bottle.
Boil the sealed bottle for 8 minutes.
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
- Tart cherries
- Provide the fruit, flavour and tartness that the preserves are made from.
- Syrup
- Sweetens the cherries and fills the bottle around them, adding moisture and body.
The step that matters
Boil the sealed bottle for 8 minutes. The heat must reach the cherries and hold for the full time so the contents are properly cooked and the seal can keep the preserves stable during storage.
“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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