Morello Cherries

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791

Source: The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (4)

cherries ↝ Cherries, raw [Other fruits and fruit salads]
a pound and a half of loaf-sugar, for every pound of cherries
the rest of your sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
half a pint of the juice of currants ↝ Currants, dried [Dried fruits]

Instructions (5)

Gather your cherries when they are full ripe, take off the stalks, and prick them with a pin.
To every pound of cherries, put a pound and a half of loaf-sugar.
Beat part of your sugar, strew it over them, and let them stand all night.
Dissolve the rest of your sugar in half a pint of the juice of currants, set it over a slow fire, and put in the cherries with the sugar, and give them a gentle scald.
Then take them carefully out, boil your syrup till it is thick, pour it upon your cherries, and tie them down close.

Original Text

Morello Cherries.
GATHER your cherries when they are full ripe, take off the stalks, and prick them with a pin. To every pound of cherries, put a pound and a half of loaf-sugar. Beat part of your sugar, strew it over them, and let them stand all night. Dissolve the rest of your sugar in half a pint of the juice of currants, set it over a slow fire, and put in the cherries with the sugar, and give them a gentle scald. Then take them carefully out, boil your syrup till it is thick, pour it upon your cherries, and tie them down close.

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