Name: Stewed Cherries
Ingredients: 1 quart cherries, washed and stemmed; 1 cup sugar; ½ cup water

Stewed Cherries

Ingredients

1 quart cherries, washed and stemmed
1 cup sugar
½ cup water

Directions

Add cherries to a syrup made of sugar and water.
Boil for five 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.

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What each ingredient does

Cherries: Provide the fruit that softens and releases juice into the syrup as it cooks.
Sugar: Sweetens the dish and helps form the syrup that coats the cherries.

“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.