Brandy Cherries

Ingredients

• Ripe Morella cherries
• 0.5 lb. sugar

Method

1. 1

   If the skin is not quite clean, dip them in water as you proceed to cut off about half the stalk.

2. 2

   Prick each cherry in two or three places with a needle, and throw them into a jar, which is to be filled with brandy.

3. 3

   Let them remain three days.

4. 4

   Pour off the brandy, and to each pint add 0.5 lb. sugar.

5. 5

   Boil, and pour over your cherries.

6. 6

   About six weeks later the cherries will probably require an additional quantity of the brandy and sugar syrup poured over them.

7. 7

   The jars or bottles must be kept carefully corked and tied down, and the cherries are not fit for eating till they have been kept two months.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 167. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BRANDY CHERRIES. that it may be transparent ; to every pound of juice add i^ lbs. sugar. Let the sugar melt in the juice, then put the mixture in a jam pan, and boil ; remove the scum as it rises, and when it ceases to rise pour the syrup into a basin with a lip ; as soon as it is cool enough, bottle ; cork the next day, and keep in a cool place. The syrup may be made with red cur- rants and raspberries. Mixed Cherries in Brandy. Take 6 lbs. ripe cherries, remove the stems, extract the stones, break them, and return the kernels to the bruised cherries. Add i^ lbs. of sugar, and boil down to the consistency of syrup ; put in a large jar, and v/hen it is cold mix in two quarts of brandy, and add some cloves ; tie down the jar so that no air can get in. When the Morella cherries are ripe, strain the above preparation through a linen cloth, and then through filtering-paper. Prick the Morella cherries with a needle, and put them into the cherry syrup. If the syrup is not enough to cover them, more brandy must be added. Tie down so as to exclude the air. In about a month the cherries will be fit for eating. Brandy Cherries. Ripe Morella cherries

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