Homemade cherries in alcohol

Cherries in alcohol, the step by step recipe to prepare a traditional preserve at home that allows you to enjoy cherries all year round, to be used at the end of a meal or to garnish desserts and ice cream

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Cherries Under Spirit, Here is the step-by-step recipe to prepare one of the most popular and ancient DIY preserves at home to have cherries available all year round to use to decorate desserts or ice creams, but also to be served at the end of the meal according to the procedure that is handed down from generation to generation.

Two ingredients are enough to prepare cherries in alcohol which in this way, as the grandmothers teach, retain all their nutritional properties. To make this traditional preserve perfectly, in fact, it will be necessary to prepare a syrup of water and sugar, which, once cold, must be poured into the jar full of clean and dry cherries and then add the alcohol to cover everything; to flavor them it is also possible to insert spices such as cinnamon or cloves inside the jar.

Valid, tasty and even faster alternative are the cherries in grappa, where it will be sufficient to simply insert cherries, cane sugar and grappa in the jar; also in this case it is possible to add aromas such as lemon scraps or cloves. As an alternative to grappa, always following this procedure, it is also possible to use whiskey, brandy, gin and vodka, the important thing is not to use liqueurs with lower grades.

To prepare cherries in alcohol, it is advisable to choose very firm and local fruit (no matter the variety), as long as it is not too ripe or treated. This will be suitably washed with water and bicarbonate and placed in previously sanitized jars with hermetic closure.

Ingredients

300 gr of cherries
120 grams of water
70 gr of brown sugar
alcool q.b.

Preparation Time:
30 minutes
Cooking time:
-
Rest time:
3 months
Dose:
for 1 jar of cherries in alcohol
difficulty:
low

How to prepare cherries in alcohol: procedure

Sanitize the jar and put the water and sugar in a saucepan, melt the sugar over medium heat, then turn off and let it cool.
To put the cherries soaked in water and bicarbonate, rinse and dry them,

cut then the petiole reducing it to a size of half a centimeter e
iniziare insert the cherries in the sanitized jar, pour the syrup and then cover with alcohol; for cherries under grappa instead insert the fruit by layering it with sugar and cover completely with grappa,
prima to close the jar it is possible to insert any aromas;
to close then the jar hermetically and store in the pantry in the dark for three months before reopening it.