821. Cherries

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (4)

a pound of cherries ↝ Cherries, raw [Other fruits and fruit salads]
a quarter of a pound of sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
the juice of a lemon ↝ Lemon juice, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
sufficient isinglass to set it as a jelly

Instructions (8)

Cut the stalks of the cherries rather short.
Put the fruit into a stewpan, with the sugar and the juice of a lemon.
Place them over the fire (occasionally shaking the pan round), letting them simmer about two minutes.
Take them out with a colander-spoon, and put them into a basin until cold.
Reduce the syrup, to which add sufficient isinglass to set it as a jelly.
Pour the jelly upon a large plate until set.
Dress the cherries pyramidically.
Just dip the bottom of the plate containing the syrup into warm water, and turn it as a jelly over the cherries.

Original Text · last edited 12 days ago

821. Cherries.—Cut the stalks of a pound of cherries rather short, and put the fruit into a stewpan, with a quarter of a pound of sugar and the juice of a lemon; place them over the fire (occasionally shaking the pan round), letting them simmer about two minutes, when take them out with a colander-spoon, and put them into a basin until cold, reduce the syrup, to which add sufficient isinglass to set it as a jelly, and pour it upon a large plate until set, when dress the cherries pyramidically, just dip the bottom of the plate containing the syrup into warm water, and turn it as a jelly over the cherries.

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