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Candied Cherries

Candied cherries are cherries cooked in a sugar syrup until sweet and preserved.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Candied Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine sugar and water in a pot to make a syrup.

  2. Boil the syrup until it thickens enough to pull like candy.

  3. Remove from heat and stir until it begins to granulate.

Candy the cherries

  1. When crystals form on the spoon, add cherries a few at a time.

  2. Let each batch boil in the syrup for 2 minutes.

  3. Remove cherries to a sieve over a dish and shake gently.

  4. Transfer cherries to a cool dish and place in a sunny window to dry.

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

Sugar
Forms the syrup that soaks into the cherries and preserves them as candy.
Cherries
Provide the fruit that becomes candied, with tart flavor and a chewy texture after soaking.
Water
Dissolves the sugar so it can form a syrup before it is boiled down.

The step that matters

Stirring until the syrup granulates. Sugar syrup must be stirred at the right moment so crystals form on the spoon. Stirring too early or too late changes the sugar's crystal structure, which affects whether the cherries candy evenly.

“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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