Brandied Cherries

Brandied Cherries

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

Directions:
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.
Yields 5 pints.
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Cactus−Date Conserve