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Shaking cherries

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Ingredients for 1 servings:

  • 5 kg sour cherries, pitted
  • 2 ½ kg sugar
  • 4 carnations
  • 2 stalk(s) cinnamon

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour

an old liqueur recipe from my mom

The washed cherries are pitted and placed in a tall container (e.g., a RUMTOPF glass) in a layer about 3 cm thick. A layer of sugar is added, followed by another layer of cherries, and so on. Finally, a layer of sugar and spices forms the final layer. The cherries are covered (with a loose plate, for example) and placed in the sun for about five weeks, stirred daily. This initiates a natural fermentation process that then transforms the cherry juice into alcohol. The process is complete after about five weeks, and then the foam stops. The cherries and the resulting liqueur are not “good” until November. Shaken cherries taste delicious with ice cream, pudding, eggnog, or in mixed drinks that would be made with cherry liqueur.

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Written by John Myers

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