To Dry Cherries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the pitted cherries in a saucepan.
Add the pounded sugar and stir to combine.
Cook and dry
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel.
Strain the cherries from the juice.
Lay the cherries on a hot hearth or in a cool oven to dry without baking them.
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
- Kentish cherries
- Provide the fruit that shrinks and concentrates in flavour as it dries.
- Loaf sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and draws moisture out of the cherries, helping them preserve.
The step that matters
Laying the cherries to dry without baking them. Sugar-cured fruit can scorch or cook into a sticky mass if the heat is too high. Gentle, low, dry heat removes moisture slowly so the cherries firm up while staying chewy and intact.
“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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