To Dry Cherries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the stoned cherries in a preserving pan and sprinkle with the pounded sugar.
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel, then strain them from the juice.
Dry
Lay the cherries on a hot hearth or in a cool oven to dry without baking.
The same syrup can be used 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.
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What each ingredient does
- Kentish cherries
- The fruit that shrivels and dries, becoming chewy and concentrated in flavor.
- Loaf sugar
- Draws moisture out of the cherries and preserves them, while sweetening the fruit.
The step that matters
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel. Sugar draws water out of the fruit through osmosis, so stopping too early leaves the cherries wetter and less preserved, while over-simmering can make 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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