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Preserved Cherries

Preserved cherries are cherries sweetened with sugar and boiled into a syrup.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stone the cherries, preserving all the juice.

  2. Weigh the fruit and use an equal weight of sugar.

  3. Layer the fruit and sugar until all is used.

Cook the syrup

  1. Pour the juice over the layers and boil gently until the syrup thickens.

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 bulk, and release juice that becomes the syrup.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and draws water out of the fruit, helping preserve it and thicken the syrup.

The step that matters

Boil gently until the syrup thickens. As water evaporates, the sugar concentration rises and the syrup thickens. Stopping too early leaves it runny and less stable, while boiling too hard or too long can scorch the sugar and darken the syrup.

“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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