How to Preserve Cherries
Take the Cherries when they be new gathered off the Tree, being full ripe, put them to the bottome of your Preserving pan, weighing to every pound of Cherries, one pound of sugar, then throw some of the sugar upon the Cherries, and set them on a very quick fire, and as they boyle throw on the rest of the sugar, till the Syrupe be thick enough, then take them out, and put them in a gally pot while they are warm; you may if you will, put two or three spoonfulls of Rose-water to them: