Cooking Recipe Cherry Conserve
Recipe Ingredients
5 lb
Bing cherries
1
Orange
Juice of 1 lemon
4 c
Sugar (2 lbs.)
1 c
Chopped almonds or pecans
1 c
Seedless raisins
Directions
Wash and pit cherries; wash, thinly slice and seed the orange. Put
cherries and orange slices into a preserving kettle and add the lemon
juice and sugar. Cook the mixture, uncovered, about 45 minutes,
stirring frequently until it is thick and transparent. Remove from
the stove. Skim off the foam with a metal spoon; then add the nuts
and the raisins and cook another 10 minutes. Ladle into hot,
sterilized jars and seal immediately.
Submitted by John Hartman Indianapolis, IN 1996