Name: Cherries, Morello, to Preserve
Ingredients: 1 lb. ripe cherries; ½ lb. sugar; ½ cup water

Cherries, Morello, to Preserve

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

1 lb. ripe cherries
½ lb. sugar
½ cup water

Directions

Prepare

Pick off the stalks from the cherries and discard any blemished ones.

Cook

Boil the sugar and water together for 6 minutes.
Add the cherries and boil for 10 minutes.

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

Cherries: Provide the fruit flavor and bulk, and their pectin and acid help the preserve set.
Sugar: Sweetens the preserve and helps it thicken and keep its texture.

“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.