Preserved Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Weigh the cherries after stemming and stoning them.
In a pot, combine the sugar and water to make a syrup.
Boil the syrup and clarify it by skimming off any foam.
Cook and store
Add the cherries to the syrup and let them scald for 5 to 10 minutes.
Transfer the cherries into glass jars for storage.
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
- Sugar
- Forms the syrup that sweetens the cherries and helps preserve them.
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit that is preserved and flavored by the syrup.
The step that matters
Skimming the syrup. Foam that forms while the syrup boils carries impurities that can cloud the syrup and spoil its clarity, so it should be removed before the cherries go in.
“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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