Preserved Cherries

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (8)
preserving cherries
for storage
Instructions (17)
  1. Stone the cherries.
  2. Put the stoned cherries in a preserving-pan with the sugar and water.
  3. Set the pan on the fire until the contents are scalding hot.
  4. Remove the pan from the fire briefly, then return it to the heat.
  5. Boil until the cherries are tender.
  6. Sprinkle in the pounded sugar.
  7. Skim the mixture clean.
  8. Transfer the cherries and syrup to a china bowl and let stand for three days.
  9. Drain the cherries through a sieve.
  10. Arrange the cherries on a wicker sieve, stalks downwards.
  11. Set the cherries in a stove to dry, turning them on clean sieves as they dry.
  12. Once dry, place a clean white sheet of paper in a preserving-pan.
  13. Put the dried cherries into the pan, followed by another sheet of paper on top.
  14. Cover the pan closely with a clean cloth.
  15. Set the pan over a cool fire until the cherries sweat.
  16. Remove from the fire and let cool completely.
  17. Put the preserved cherries into boxes or jars for storage.
Original Text
TAKE twelve pounds of cherries, then stone them, put them in your preserving-pan, with three pounds of double-refined sugar and a quart of water; then set them on the fire till they are scalding hot, take them off a little while, and set them on the fire again. Boil them till they are tender, then sprinkle them with half a pound of double-refined sugar pounded, and skim them clean. Put them all together in a china bowl, let them stand in the syrup three days; then drain them through a sieve, take them out one by one, with the stalks downwards on a wicker sieve, then set them in a stove to dry, and as they dry turn them upon clean sieves. When they are dry enough, put a clean white sheet of paper in a preserving-pan, then put all the cherries in, with another clean white sheet of paper on the top of them; cover them close with a cloth, and set them over a cool fire till they sweat. Take them off the fire, then let them stand till they are cold, and put them in boxes or jars to keep.
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