Preserved Cherries

Ingredients

• carnation or common light red cherries
• double refined sugar

Instructions

1. The most beautiful cherries to preserve are the carnation and common light red, with short stems.
2. Select the finest that are not too ripe.
3. Take an equal weight with the cherries of double refined sugar and make it into a syrup.
4. Preserve them without stoning, and with the stems on.
5. If they be done carefully, and the "Directions for preserving" closely attended to, the stems will not come off, and they will be so transparent that the stones may be seen.