Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Sauce of Cherries, or Damsons

Allow half a pound of brown sugar to every pound of fruit, and to each seven pounds a pint of molasses, and one of strong vinegar, let them cook slowly, so as not to break the skins, take them up in a jar, put in a few cloves, let the syrup boil longer, and pour it over.