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Cherry Vinegar

Cover several bushels of mashed cherries with water and let stand forty-eight hours in a tub. Drain and press through a bag. To the resulting liquor add half as much water and to each half-gallon of the mixture two ounces of sugar. Let ferment.

DRIED CHERRIES No. I Stone and spread in thin layers on earthenware; sprinkle sugar over and dry in slow oven, the hot sun, or fruit-dryer. DRIED CHERRIES No. 2 Stew cherries with a little sugar (no water) then spread on earthenware and dry in slow oven. Cook down the syrup and when the fruit is dry pour it over the cherries, a little each day till all is used, drying again in the oven and repeating till all the syrup is used.