Bing Cherries in Amaretto Juice - Syrup

Bing Cherries in Amaretto Juice - Syrup

Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 3 -4 lbs bing cherries, stemmed and washed
• 2 cups orange juice
• 2 cups pineapple juice
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup Amaretto
• 4 drops red food coloring
• 3 cinnamon sticks, broken in half

Directions

• 1 In large dutch oven pan add orange juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice and sugar. Heat on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and blended.
• 2 Stir. Do not burn.
• 3 Add food coloring and cinnamon sticks.
• 4 Add cherries, and stir in.(Do not pit cherries)Keep their shape.Heat for 15 minutes on low heat, until cherries and juice is hot.
• 5 Add Amaretto and stir until mixed.
• 6 Heat clean canning jars in the oven in water, upside down. Heat the seals in a separate pan on the stove.
• 7 Pack the jars with cherries, then add the juice. Put cinnamon sticks in the jars. Wipe the rim of the jar with a hot clean cloth and seal and band. Any leftover juice pack in another jar, clean, seal and band.
• 8 Process in a hot water bath for 20 minutes.
• 9 Take out and put on a toweled counter.
• 10 Do not put in drafts.
• 11 Remember to tell your guests there are pits in the cherries.

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