Name: Frozen Cherries
Ingredients: 2 quarts of cherries, pitted; 1 quart of sugar; ⅓ cup of maraschino liqueur; salt and ice

Frozen Cherries

Ingredients

2 quarts of cherries, pitted
1 quart of sugar
⅓ cup of maraschino liqueur
salt and ice

Directions

Prepare

Use the ripest and darkest variety of cherries.
Stone the cherries.
Combine the cherries with the sugar and let them stand for 1 hour.
Add the maraschino liqueur to the cherry mixture.

Freeze

Place the mixture in a freezer, pack it in salt and ice, and let it stand for 6 hours.

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 flavour and texture that form the body of the dessert.
Sugar: Sweetens the cherries and draws out their juice, helping form a syrup.
Maraschino liqueur: Adds aromatic cherry-almond flavour to the mixture.

“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.