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Preserved Cherries

A sweet preserve made by boiling cherries with sugar until syrup thickens.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stone the cherries.

  2. Mix the sugar with the cherries and let them stand for over an hour.

Cook

  1. Put the cherries on the fire and boil them.

  2. Skim the mixture until the fruit is clear and the syrup is thick.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Morella cherries
Provide the fruit that becomes tender and flavorful as it cooks in syrup.
Loaf sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and thickens the syrup, preserving the cherries through sweetness.

The step that matters

Skimming the mixture. Skimming removes foam and impurities that rise while boiling, leaving a clear syrup. Stopping only when the fruit is clear and the syrup thick matters, because undercooked syrup may not set and overcooked sugar can turn dark or hard.

“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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