To Make Cherry-paste Recipe
Take Cherries, stone and boil them, breaking them well the while,
and boil them very dry; and to a Pound of Cherries put a Pound and a
Quarter of Sugar, sifted thro' an Hair Sieve; let the Cherries be
hot when you put in the Sugar; set it on the Fire 'till the Sugar is
well melted; put it in a broad Pan, or earthen Plates; let it stand
in the Stove 'till it is candy'd; drop it on Glass, and, when dry on
one Side, turn it.
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