To Crystallise Cherries
Dear Aunt Daisy, _Now that the cherry season is in, I was wondering if you, or any of your listeners, could tell me how to crystallise them, It is almost impossible to buy crystallised cherries, and anyhow they are so dear. If any listener could tell me how to do them, I should be very grateful. "Mac" (Heathcote). Yes, here are some methods. The first is from Cumberland. Take some fine sugar, put a little water to it, and boil it. Stone the cherries, and put them in the syrup. Boil, and then let them stand in the syrup for 2 or 3 days. Boil the syrup again, pour it over the cherries, let them stand some time and then lay them on a sieve to dry. Candied Cherries-Allow one pound of sugat to each pound of cherries, which have been stoned. Make a syrup of the sugar, and water-about a cupful to each pound. Let it simmer gently till the sugar is all dissolved. Then, when the syrup is boiling, put in the cherries; simmer them very slowly till quite clear. Pour off the syrup, place the fruit on flat dishes, and let dry in the sun, or in a slow oven-it may take ten hours or more. When they are thoroughly dry, dust them over with sugar, and put in a papered box. Crystallised Cherries-Make a syrup from one pound of sugar, to a cup of water, stir till the sugar is dissolved, and just when it begins to boil, stir in quarter of a teaspoon of cream of tartar. Then stop stirring, and let it boil quickly for three or four minutes-test it by dropping .a little into cold water. If it forms a ball between your thumb and finger, it has reached the desired stage. Drop in the fruit to be crystallised, a few at a time. After a few minutes, lift them out gently, and drain free from syrup. Place the fruit on a wire cake-stand or tray, and put them in*the sun to dry. When dry, make a syrup as before, and repeat the whole process, this time sifting coarse granulated sugar over the fruit when you put it on the wire trays. When dry, put in layers in boxes, with sheets of waxed paper in between. Keep in a cool, dry place.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 23
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392To Crystallise Cherries New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 23
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