Cherry Preserves
Ingredients
Directions
In a saucepan, combine 1 pint of sugar with 1 pint of water to make a syrup.
Add the pitted cherries to the syrup.
Boil the mixture hard for 10 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
- Cherries
- Provide the main fruit flavor and the bulk of the preserve.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and, at high concentration, helps preserve it and thicken the syrup.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture hard for 10 minutes. A hard boil evaporates water and concentrates the sugar in the syrup. Boiling too briefly leaves the preserve thin and less stable, while the sugar concentration is what helps it keep.
“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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