Brandied cherries
Brandied cherries recipe in the canning category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 1/2 pounds Bing cherries
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 1/4 cups brandy
Recipe method:
- Rinse, stem and pit cherries.
- Combine sugar, water and lemon juice in saucepan.
- Heat to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar.
- Pour 1/4 cup syrup into clean, hot jar.
- Fill jars with cherries.
- Add 1/4 cup brandy and more syrup as necessary to fill each jar, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Seal.
- Process in a boiling water bath 20 minutes.
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