Bing Cherries In Amaretto Juice - Syrup

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 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

Recipe

• 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.