Curye On Inglysch , Book III, Utilis Coquinario , ed. To make some cherries. Add lard or sweet butter and some white bread crumbs, and add some good wine and sugar. Salt it and stir well, serve it in dishes, and garnish with cloves and sugar. I'm assuming some actual cooking, as in the application of heat, takes place here, if only to melt the lard or butter.
Bread crumbs are a matter of taste.
I opted for a rather thin soup, but the actual dish was probably a bit thicker. I suspect the cloves are intended to be left whole, rather than ground, since powder of cloves is a known, standard, 14th century ingredient. Possibly they were chewed as a breath freshener. I, however, am a spoilsport at heart, so I intend to use powdered cloves, to avoid expensive dental accidents in dim feast halls. As for sugar, it's likely that it's sprinkled lavishly on top so that it looks really opulent, while actually this expensive and exotic pharmaceutical is in there pretty skimpily.