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Anne Bayne booke [of recipes] circa 1700

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(42) To preserve Morella Cherries Take your Cherries when they are a bright rid. & stone them with a quill cut like a pen. then make a thin syrrup for them that is a pint of water & a pint of Clarified sugar to 2 pound of Cherries. then boile your syrrup very well & put in your Cherries & cover them with white cap paper & let them boile. then take them of the fire & shake them very well 2 or 3 times. then take them & power them into a cleane stone pankin. & cover them with a paper & let them stand till the next day then take your Cherries out of that & make a syrrup as much as you think will cover them & to every pound of sugar you must put a gill of water. & halfe a gill of the Iuice of Currans as for your Cleare cake boile your syrrup very well & take of all the skim. then put in your Cherries & boile them very well & put them into your glasses or pots fine loafe sugar is much better then powder sugar. the first syrrup will doe for Cherry brandy
 
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