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Iced Chebby Compote

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France

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 3 gills of syrup
  2. 2 lbs. of May-Duke cherries

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Eemove the stalks and stones of 2 lbs.
  2. of May-Duke cherries ;
  3. Cook them in 3 gills of syrup at 32° ;
  4. When cold, drain the cherries, and strain the syrup, through a silk sieve, into a freezing-pot set in ice ;
  5. add 3 tablesi)oonfuls of Kirschenwasser ;
  6. and, when it is frozen to icicles, add the cherries ;
  7. Let them remain in the ice for a quarter of an hour ;
  8. Tour the whole into a compote-glass ;
  9. and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve
  • Colander