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Cherries, To Preserve

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 5

Probable cost of cherries, 10d. to 1s. per pound.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 348. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cherries, To Preserve. — Take two poimds of sound, ripe Kentish chen-ies, weighed after they have been picked and stoned. Put a pound of sifted sugar into the preserving each cherry with a needle, half fill a wide- necked bottle with them, and to eaoh bottle put a dozen scraped bitter almonds and a quarter of a poimd of white sugar cjind

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