Preserved Cherries

Origin: Mobile, Alabama

Source: Abby Fisher, 1881

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Seed your cherries and put sugar on them the day before preserving.
  2. Pour off the juice the next day and put it to boil.
  3. When the syrup boils, put the cherries in and let them stay five minutes.
  4. Take the cherries out and put them back in boiling syrup in five minutes.
  5. Continue this cycle every five minutes for one hour total, when they will be preserved.
  6. When the preserves are cold, put them away.

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