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Cherries

Musilla cherries preserved in a sugar syrup.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the cherries and remove the pits.

  2. Combine the sugar with enough water to cover the cherries in a saucepan.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil.

Cook and bottle

  1. Boil the syrup for 5 to 10 minutes.

  2. Pour the syrup over the cherries in bottles and seal them.

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

Musilla cherries
Provide the fruit whose flavor and texture carry the preserve.
Granulated sugar
Forms the syrup that sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it.

“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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