Name: Cherries in a Timbale
Ingredients: 2 pounds good red fleshy cherries; timbale paste (see Pastes)

Cherries in a Timbale

Ingredients

2 pounds good red fleshy cherries
timbale paste (see Pastes)

Directions

Prepare

Prepare a paste for the timbale as directed in the Pastes recipe.
Wash and pit the cherries, removing any stems.

Assemble and bake

Fill the prepared timbale with the cherries.
Bake according to the timbale paste instructions.

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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What each ingredient does

Cherries: Provide the main fruit filling, adding sweetness, tartness and moisture to the timbale.
Timbale paste: Forms the crisp shell that holds the cherries during baking.

“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.