Plain Syrup
To six pounds of sugar add one half gallon of water. Stir until sugar is dissolved and bring to boiling point. Strain through a flannel bag, and bottle for use.
Cherry Syrup No. 1 Put cherries into a wooden bowl and pound with potato masher to break the stones, then strain through a jelly bag. To each quart of juice add one pound of sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved, then boil five minutes. Cool, and bottle.
Cherry Syrup No. 2 Soak eight ounces of wild cherry bark in one quart of cold distilled water for forty-eight hours. Strain, and add one pound of granulated sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved and bottle.