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Morella Cherries

A preserve made by boiling Morello cherries with brown sugar to create a sweet syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Morella Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stone the cherries and weigh them along with their juice.

Make the preserve

  1. Boil the cherries and juice for 30 minutes.

  2. Add the brown sugar.

  3. Boil for another 1.5 hours, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.

Rest and jar

  1. Stir the mixture for a day or two to keep the syrup from settling.

  2. Transfer the preserve into small jars to prevent it from becoming acidic when opened.

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 flavour, body and natural tartness of the preserve.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and thickens the syrup as water evaporates, helping preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Boiling for 1.5 hours while stirring. As water evaporates, the sugar concentrates and can scorch on the bottom of the pan, giving a burnt flavour. Frequent stirring spreads the heat and keeps the preserve from sticking and burning.

“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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