To preserve Cherries

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (4)

two pound of cherries ↝ Cherries, raw [Other fruits and fruit salads]
one pound and an half of sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
half a pint of fair water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
your other sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]

Instructions (6)

Melt your sugar in the fair water.
When it is melted, put in your other sugar and your cherries.
Boil them softly, till all the sugar be melted.
Then boil them fast, and skim them.
Take them off two or three times, and shake them, and put them on again, and let them boil fast.
When they are of a good colour, and the syrup will stand, they are enough.

Original Text

To preſerve Cherries.
To two pound of cherries, put one pound and an half of ſugar, half a pint of fair water, melt your ſugar in it; when it is melted, put in your other ſugar and your cherries; then boil them ſoftly, till all the ſugar be melted; than boil them faſt, and ſkim them; take them off two or three times, and ſhake them, and put them on again, and let them boil faſt; and when they are of a good colour, and the ſyrup will ſtand, they are enough.

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