To Dry Cherries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and cook
Stone the cherries and weigh them.
In a preserving pan, combine the cherries with the powdered sugar.
Set the pan over medium heat and simmer gently for 20 minutes.
Dry the cherries
Let the cherries cool in the syrup.
Transfer the cherries to a sieve and allow excess syrup to drain.
Lay the cherries singly on dishes to dry gradually.
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, which softens and concentrates in flavour as it cooks in the syrup.
- Powdered sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and draws out water, helping preserve the cherries as they dry.
The step that matters
Simmer gently over medium heat. A gentle simmer keeps the cherries from splitting or breaking apart, so they hold their shape. Letting them cool in the syrup then lets them absorb sugar evenly.
“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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