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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 3 ingredients
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- Take cherries with half their weight in sugar, and half a pint of water for every pound of sugar.
- Boil sugar and water to a very clear syrup, then add the fruit and boil for eight minutes (the fruit must be fully ripe) ;
- take care not to break it.
- Pour into a bowl and leave all night, then strain the syrup and reboil it with the addition of one-half the original weight of sugar.
- Then add the fruit, and again boil for eight minutes.
- Put in the jars and cover when cold.
- This is very nice in good seasons.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Mixing bowl
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