Cherry Sunshine
Ingredients
Directions
Make the cherry preserve
Combine sugar and cherries in a pot.
Boil for 5 to 8 minutes.
Set in the sun
Pour the mixture into tumblers.
Set the tumblers in the sun for 3 days.
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
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit base and flavor that the sweetened mixture is built around.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and helps thicken the mixture as it cooks down into a preserve.
The step that matters
Boiling the cherries and sugar. Boiling for the full 5 to 8 minutes helps the sugar dissolve and the mixture concentrate, which matters for how well it sets during the sun-setting period.
“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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