To Dry Cherries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the pitted cherries in a saucepan with the crushed sugar.
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel.
Strain the cherries from the juice.
Dry
Lay the cherries on a hot hearth or in a cool oven to dry without baking them.
You can reuse the syrup for another 6 pounds of fruit.
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 dries into a chewy, concentrated product.
- Loaf sugar
- Draws out moisture and preserves the cherries while adding sweetness.
The step that matters
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel. Simmering in sugar draws water out of the fruit through osmosis. Stopping too early leaves the cherries wet and prone to spoiling, while over-cooking makes them tough and overly candied.
“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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