BING CHERRIES IN AMARETTO JUICE - SYRUP

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If you want that zing, try this over ice cream, sponge cake, cooked roast pork. You may thicken the juice for the sauce. It is so good! I had fun making this recipe, so easy. If you can't get dark red Bing cherries substitute other cherries.

Provided by Montana Heart Song

Categories     Sauces

Time 40m

Yield 4-5 pints, 16 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

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

Steps:

  • In large dutch oven pan add orange juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice and sugar. Heat on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and blended.
  • Stir. Do not burn.
  • Add food coloring and cinnamon sticks.
  • 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.
  • Add Amaretto and stir until mixed.
  • Heat clean canning jars in the oven in water, upside down. Heat the seals in a separate pan on the stove.
  • 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.
  • Process in a hot water bath for 20 minutes.
  • Take out and put on a toweled counter.
  • Do not put in drafts.
  • Remember to tell your guests there are pits in the cherries.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 193.1, Fat 0.3, Sodium 0.9, Carbohydrate 49, Fiber 1.9, Sugar 44.7, Protein 1.2

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