Canning Brandied Cherries
Drunken cherries with alcohol are perfect for baking or making some delicious drinks. You can can and make your own boozy cherries.
Servings: 6 pints
Equipment
Ingredients
- 6 pounds dark sweet cherries
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1 1/4 cups brandy
Instructions
- Turn on your water bath canner and fill with water to heat up while processing the cherries.
- Mix together the water, sugar and lemon juice.
- Place on the stove, cooking on a medium heat.
- Bring up to a boil.
- Stir until the sugar dissolves into the water.
- Wash and pit the cherries (remove stems if needed).
- Reduce heat to a 180F simmer and add the cherries.
- We want the cherries to simmer and become hot inside and out.
- Once the cherries are hot, turn off the burner and remove from the heat.
- Add the bourbon/brandy and stir into the mix.
- Pack the hot cherries and syrup into hot jars.
- Leave 1/2" headspace with cherries and syrup in each jar.
- Remove any bubbles from the jar.
- Clean the jar rim and place the lid on finger tightening the band.
- Place the jars into the hot water bath canner and make sure jars are covered by 1 inch of water.
- Bring the water bath canner to a rolling boil for 10 minutes on medium-high heat.
- Once this happens, turn off the water bath canner.
- Remove the lid from the canner and let the jars sit in the canner for 5 minutes.
- Remove the jars from the canner and place on the towel.
- Cover the jars with a towel and allow them to cool for 12 hours.
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Notes
Test jars to make sure they have sealed. Remove the bands when storing.
Label and date the jars.
Give the boozy cherries 4 weeks to flavor with the ingredients, then enjoy.