Spiced Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Stone the cherries.
Make a syrup by combining equal parts sugar and water, heating until the sugar dissolves.
Pour the syrup over the cherries.
Repeat
Repeat this process for five consecutive mornings.
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 absorbs the syrup and becomes sweet and soft over time.
- Sugar
- Dissolves into a syrup that sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it.
The step that matters
Dissolve the sugar fully. Heating the sugar and water until it dissolves gives a smooth, evenly sweet syrup. Undissolved sugar grains can settle, leaving the syrup uneven and the fruit unevenly sweetened.
“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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