Cherries Preserved Dry in Bunches

Ingredients

• fine equal-sized cherries
• sugar

Directions

1. Tie 7 or 8 cherries in bunches by their stalks.

2. Boil sugar in water until it reaches a souffle stage.

3. Add the cherries and let them boil in the syrup 14 to 15 times.

4. Skim the mixture and pour it into an earthen pan.

5. Set the pan on a stove until the next day.

6. Drain the cherries and lay them out to dry.