(Cooked cherries - Our recipe)

Time: preparation: 10 minutes ........cooking: about 10 minutes 1 Kg (2 1/4 lb) cherries 200 g (7 oz) sugar 10 cloves Medium difficulty

  Spoon measures are American spoons, that is standard cook's measuring spoons used in USA.
  The best plan is to regard 2 American teaspoons or tablespoons as 1 English teaspoon or tablespoon (eating spoons)

This recipe needs unstoned cherries.
Remove the stalks from the cherries, wash them in cold water quickly and drain. Put them in a saucepan with the sugar and cloves; cover. Bring to the boil slowly; this kind of fruit makes water when cooked. Be careful: when you see water, raise the flame, stir gently and keep on cooking for very few minutes. If the water is too much, remove it with a ladle. If the cooking time is too long, you risk to make jam instead of cooked fruit. At the end there must be a little juice. Chill the dessert.
They are very good as a dessert but you can also garnish ice creams with them. In this case the recipe serves 12.

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