To Dry Cherries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the cherries
Place the pitted cherries in a saucepan and add the powdered sugar.
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel.
Strain the cherries from the juice.
Dry the cherries
Lay the cherries on a hot hearth or in an oven that is cool enough to dry them without baking.
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
- Provide the fruit that becomes chewy and concentrated as its water cooks off.
- Loaf sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and draws water out of it, helping the cherries keep.
The step that matters
Simmer until the cherries just begin to shrivel. Sugar syrup thickens as water evaporates, and cooking too long can split the skins and turn the cherries mushy or caramelised at the edges. Stopping at the first signs of shrivelling keeps them whole and ready to dry 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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