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Three-Fruit Preserve

10 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg redcurrants
• 1 kg raspberries
• 1 kg pitted sour or sweet cherries
• 1 kg sugar
• 3 g finely ground cinnamon

Instructions

1. Boil the sugar until clear, add the fruit with the cinnamon and half of the crushed and pounded cherry pits, and cook everything well, stirring constantly, until a stiff preserve is formed.
2. This three-fruit preserve is delightful both spread on cakes and as a dessert.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.