Preserved Cherries
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the syrup
Lay the cherries with the sugar the night before.
Drain off the syrup and boil it with the sugar.
Pack and seal
Add the cherries to the syrup, keeping them as whole as possible.
Put the cherries in jars and cover them with the syrup.
Seal the jars tightly.
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 fruit, which keeps its shape and flavor when packed in syrup.
- Sugar
- Draws moisture out of the fruit and forms the syrup that sweetens and preserves it.
The step that matters
Adding the cherries to the syrup. Heat and rough handling soften the fruit's cell walls, so cherries added gently to the syrup keep their shape instead of breaking apart.
“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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