Preserved Cherries
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- cherries
- sugar
Instructions
- Seed your cherries and put sugar on them the day before preserving.
- Pour off the juice the next day and put it to boil.
- When the syrup boils, put the cherries in and let them stay five minutes.
- Take the cherries out and put them back in boiling syrup in five minutes.
- Continue this cycle every five minutes for one hour total, when they will be preserved.
- When the preserves are cold, put them away.