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Cherry Nectar

A sweet cherry syrup made by boiling cherries, water, and sugar, then cooling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cherry Nectar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cherries

  1. Stone the cherries.

  2. Boil them in 1 quart of water for 30 minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture.

Make the nectar

  1. Boil the juice with 1 pound of sugar for 10 minutes.

  2. Add the cherries back in.

  3. Boil for an additional 20 minutes.

  4. Serve ice cold.

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 main flavor, color and fruit body of the nectar.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and body, balancing the tartness of 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.

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