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To Dry Cherries with Sugar

This recipe dries cherries in a sugar syrup until they are fully dried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Dry Cherries with Sugar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cherries

  1. Stone the cherries.

  2. Place the cherries in a preserving pan.

  3. Add 6 ounces of powdered sugar for each pound of cherries.

Cook in syrup

  1. Set the pan over moderate heat.

  2. Simmer gently for 20 minutes.

  3. Let the cherries cool in the syrup.

Dry

  1. Transfer the cherries to a sieve.

  2. Lay them out singly on dishes before they cool completely.

  3. Dry the cherries gradually as you would with other fruits.

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

Cherries
Form the fruit base that softens in syrup and dries into a chewy, concentrated texture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out moisture, forming a syrup that preserves it as it dries.

The step that matters

Simmer gently. Gentle simmering softens the cherries and lets sugar penetrate without bursting the skins or boiling the syrup too fast. Vigorous boiling can toughen the fruit and make the syrup crystallise or darken unevenly.

“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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