To Dry Cherries

Ingredients

• 3 pounds fresh cherries
• 1 pound good brown sugar
• cherry juice
• powdered loaf sugar

Instructions

1. Stone them, and save the juice.
2. Weigh the cherries and allow one pound of good brown sugar to three of the fruit.
3. Boil it with the juice, put the cherries in, and stew them fifteen or twenty minutes.
4. Take them out, drain off the syrup, and lay the cherries in dishes to dry in the sun.
5. Keep the syrup to pour over a little at a time, as it dries on the cherries, which must be frequently turned over.
6. When all the syrup is used, put the cherries away in pots, sprinkling a little powdered loaf sugar between the layers.
7. They make excellent pies, puddings, and charlottes.