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Canned Cherries

A preserved cherry dish made by boiling cherries in a sugar syrup and canning them.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Canned Cherries

Why it works: Sugar and cherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,598 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Canned Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Prepare a syrup with ½ pound of sugar and water.

Scald the cherries

  1. Add the cherries to the syrup and let them scald for 10 to 15 minutes without boiling hard.

  2. Remove the muslin bag with cherry stones before canning.

Can

  1. Can and seal the cherries while hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + cherrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cherries
Provide the fruit that softens and holds its shape during gentle scalding.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it once canned.

The step that matters

Scalding without a hard boil. Simmering gently softens the cherries and lets them absorb syrup while keeping their shape. A hard boil can break the skins and turn the fruit mushy.

“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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