Name: Pickled Cherries
Ingredients: large ripe cherries; best vinegar

Pickled Cherries

Ingredients

large ripe cherries
best vinegar

Directions

Prepare

Remove the stones from the cherries.
Fill a large glass jar two-thirds full with cherries.

Pickle

Pour vinegar into the jar until it is full.
Keep the jar well covered.

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

Large ripe cherries: Provide the fruit that gives the pickles their flavour and texture.
Best vinegar: Acts as the pickling liquid, adding acidity and preserving the cherries.

“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.