To Dry Cherries with Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the cherries
Place the stoned cherries in a preserving pan.
Sprinkle the pounded sugar among the cherries.
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel.
Strain the cherries from the juice.
Dry
Lay them on a hot hearth or in a cool oven to dry without baking.
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
- Kentish cherries
- Provide the main fruit flavor and the bulk of the finished dried cherries.
- Loaf sugar
- Adds sweetness and draws moisture out of the fruit, helping it shrivel and concentrate.
The step that matters
Simmer until the cherries begin to shrivel. Sugar draws water out of the fruit as it simmers. Stopping as soon as the cherries start to shrivel keeps them tender and prevents the sugar from becoming overly thick and sticky or the fruit from turning mushy.
“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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