SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2618

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

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>
>An Electuary of Sour Cherries for Invalids who Have Lost the Desire to Eat
>
>Take as many sour cherries as you wish and put them in a pot on the fire and
>add just enough water, and let them cook in this water until they become
>very tender and appear to be white;


 >and then throw out the water in which
>they have cooked;

Blasphemy!

>and then take a coarse sieve of bristles

Could this be a hair sieve?

, which you can
>strain them with and rub them with your hands until they have all passed
>through.  Then take for each pound of these sour cherries, prepared in this
>way, half a pound of sugar and mix it in its pot over a low fire; stirring
>constantly with a piece of cane

What type of cane? sugarcane?

Regards,

Cindy