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CHERRIES, COMPOTE OF (another way)

Take off the stems from Kentish or Morella cherries. Make a syrup with five ounces of sugar and half a pint of water for the former, but allow another ounce of sugar for the extra acidity of the Morellas. Stew one pound of the fruit in the syrup for twenty minutes; they may be stoned or not. When the Morellas are very ripe, they may be stewed only ten minutes, and will then be excellent. Time: ten minutes to boil sugar; eight to ten minutes Morellas;--fifteen minutes for Kentish cherries. Probable cost of cherries, 3d. to 6d. per pound. Morella cherries are generally rather more expensive.