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The last few years I have made a tradition of setting down some cherry liquor in July that will be ready for christmas. This is my mother and fathers receipt.
Ingredients
- Ripe cherries
- Sugar
- 60% or 40% vodca or perfume free alcohol
Receipt
- Pick cherries selectively so you will have a nice batch of good looking, ripe and undamaged cherries. Keep just the berries, not stems etc.
- Optional: Rince in cold water.
- Fill a clean glass jar almost full that you can seal "airtight" shut.
- Fill sugar until it just covers the cherries.
- Fill alcohol until it goes almost to the top of the jar.
- Mark the jar with what it contains and the date. TIP: make a calendar note 12 weeks from not do drain it (see #11).
- Keep in room temperatur until sugar is "melted" (no longer to be seen - this will take some days). I prefere to cover the jar so it is not exposed to light.
- Shake gently / turn upside down and back occationally.
- Some times the cherries will produce some gass so it might be smart to open the lid gently to let som preassure out a few times. NOTE: make sure to open lid very slowly and have some covering (paper towl) around the opening as the preassure can blast out some cherry juice that can stain the surroundings.
- When sugar is melted keep in a dark and cool place (basement or similar) for about 12 weeks.
- Drain off the cherry liquor (as we do not remove the seeds it will put to much of a bitter taste on it if you leave it for too long) into a new container (nice flask that you will be serving it from).
- It is now more or less ready to drink, but I like to store it dark and cool until December - and serve it as a cherry x-mas digistif or by itself.
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