Preserved Cherries

Name: Preserved Cherries
Cuisine: Tidewater Virginia
Ingredients: carnation or common light red cherries; double refined sugar

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Select the finest carnation or common light red cherries with short stems, choosing fruit that is not too ripe. Weigh the cherries, then measure an equal weight of double refined sugar. Make the sugar into a syrup. Preserve the cherries without stoning and with the stems left on. Follow the "Directions for preserving" closely. If done carefully, the stems will not come off, and the cherries will become so transparent that the stones may be seen through them.