To preserve Morello Cherries

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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For preserving Morello Cherries
Instructions (8)
  1. Get your cherries when they are full ripe, take out the stalks and prick them with a pin.
  2. To every two pounds of cherries put a pound and a half of loaf sugar.
  3. Beat part of your sugar and strew it over them, let them stand all night.
  4. Dissolve the rest of your sugar in half a pint of the juice of currants.
  5. Set it over a slow fire, and put in the cherries with the sugar, and give them a gentle scald.
  6. Let them stand all night again, and give them another scald.
  7. Then take them carefully out, and boil your syrup till it is thick, then pour it upon your cherries.
  8. If you find it be too thin boil it again.
Original Text
To preserve Morello Cherries. GET your cherries when they are full ripe, take out the stalks and prick them with a pin, to every two pounds of cherries put a pound and a half of loaf sugar, beat part of your sugar and strew it over them, 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, let them stand all night again, and give them another scald, then take them carefully out, and boil your syrup till it is thick, then pour it upon your cherries; if you find it be too thin boil it again.
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