To preserve Morella Cherries

New system of domestic cookery, forme... · Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby · 1806
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New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (6)
  1. Gather cherries when full ripe, and perfectly dry, take off the stalks, and prick them with a new needle to prevent bursting.
  2. Weigh to every pound of cherries, one and a half of sugar. Beat part of the sugar and strew over the cherries. Let them lie all night.
  3. Dissolve the rest of the sugar in half a pint of currant-juice. Set it over the fire, and put in the cherries, and sugar that hangs about them. Give them a scald, then put them in a China bowl.
  4. Next day give them another scald.
  5. Then take them carefully out, boil the syrup till it is thick, and pour it on them.
  6. Look at it in a day or two, and if too thin, boil it more, but gently.
Original Text
To preserve Morella Cherries. Gather them when full ripe, and perfectly dry, take off the stalks, and prick them with a new needle to prevent bursting. Weigh to every pound, one and a half of sugar, beat part, and strew over them; let them lie all night; dissolve the rest in half a pint of currantjuice, set it over the fire, and put in the cherries, and sugar that hangs about them, give them a scald, then put them in a China bowl; next day give them another scald, then take them carefully out, boil the syrup till it is thick, and pour it on them; look at it in a day or two, and if too thin, boil it more, but gently.
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