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Compote de Cerises

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Currants
  2. Sugar
  3. Must
  4. a glass of water

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. Put a glass of water and your sugar on to boil, till the syrup is clear ;
  2. add your cherries, after cutting off the stalks ;
  3. let them boil up a few times, and serve.
  4. Compote of Currants .
  5. This is made the same way, hut the currants must he in hunches.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Manual of French cookery (1853), printed page 222, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/manualoffrenchco00onew

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.