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Morella Cherries

A preserved cherry dessert made by soaking cherries in a powdered sugar and brandy mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,939 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Morella Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cherries

  1. Choose the finest Morella cherries and cut off the stalks to about ½ inch long.

  2. Place the cherries in glass jars.

Add the syrup

  1. Dissolve ½ cup of powdered sugar-candy in 1 quart of brandy.

  2. Pour the sugar-brandy mixture over the cherries.

  3. Cover the jars tightly with a bladder.

Serve

  1. Serve the cherries for dessert in glasses.

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 + brandytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11,939 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and brandy barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 11,939 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Morella cherries
Main fruit, providing the flavour and texture of the finished dish.
Powdered sugar-candy
Adds sweetness and dissolves into the brandy to form a sweet liquor.
Brandy
Carries the sugar and adds aroma, and its alcohol helps preserve the fruit.

“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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