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Cherry Bounce

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a gallon of water
  2. a gallon of brandy
  3. a pound of sugar

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

  1. Use large, sweet, wild cherries.
  2. Mash, strain through a cloth, and to each gallon of juice add half a gallon of water.
  3. Boil as long as any scum arises, skimming it off;
  4. then add to every gallon about a pound of sugar.
  5. Boil and skim as before.
  6. » When cold mix with each gallon half a gallon of brandy.
  7. Mrs.
  8. H.
  9. M.
  10. THOMPSON.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Our cook book (1910), printed page 109, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ourcookbookmolly00daug

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.