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Preserved Morella Cherries, for Dessert

Preserved ripe Morella cherries with sugar candy, boiled in water, cooled, and stored in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserved Morella Cherries, for Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cherries

  1. Gather cherries in dry weather and use immediately.

  2. Cut off the stem, leaving a quarter inch of the cherry.

  3. Wipe each cherry with a clean, soft cloth.

Pack and seal

  1. Place cherries in wide-necked jars and sprinkle sugar candy on top.

  2. Tie jars with two bladders separately.

Cook and finish

  1. Place jars in an open pan with cold water up to the neck of the jars.

  2. Slowly bring the water to a boil and then simmer for 45 minutes.

  3. Remove the pan from heat and let jars cool in the water.

  4. Take jars out, wipe them, and label.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Morella cherries
Provide the fruit body and juice that softens and sets into the preserve.
Sugar candy
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice, helping preserve the cherries.

The step that matters

Simmer the water gently. Bringing the water to a boil and then simmering slowly heats the jars evenly. Rapid boiling can crack jars and overcook the fruit, so the water should not be allowed to churn hard.

“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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