How To Keep Cherries All The Year

Take any quantity of cherries, and boil them in water till they are dissolved; strain the liquor thro' a cloth. This done, take some very fine cherries with the stalks on, without bruises, and put them in the liquor, and let them boil a little, but not long enough to break them; then take them up, and put them gently into a dish, so as not to bruise them. Afterwards take the liquor the cherries were boiled in, and put sugar enough in it to make a pleasant syrup; let the cherries just boil in the syrup, and let it cool. Let them continue in the syrup, and they will keep all the year.

How To Preserve Cherries

Take some of the finest cherries free from bruises, and an equal weight of loaf-sugar; as also half the weight of juice of red currants; put some of the sugar into the juice, and when it is dissolved add the cherries; set them over a quick fire, and make them boil as quick as you can; and while they are boiling, strew in the reft of the cherries by a little at a time. You may know when they are enough by taking some of the liquor in a spoon; for if it jellies, you may take it off and fill your glasses. When they are cold paper them up.