Ingredients
Scale
- 2 pints tart pie cherries, pitted
- 3/4 cup cane sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 cinnamon sticks (each one was approximately 3 inches long)
- 1 whole star anise
- 3 whole cloves
- 1 tablspoon lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon licorice root powder
- 1/4 teaspoon mixed peppercorns (pink, green, black and white)
Instructions
- Put the water, lime juice. powdered licorice root and sugar in a stainless steel saucepan and brought it to a boil.
- Continue to boil it - stirring continually - until the sugar is dissolved.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and set it aside.
- Place the cinnamon sticks, star anise, cloves and peppercorns into the bottom of a half-gallon canning jar.
- Put the pitted cherries - along with their juice - on top of the spices.
- Add the hot sugar water to the jar.
- Place a plastic screw-on lid made for canning jars on the jar and set it aside to cool.
- Once the contents of the jar are cool to the touch, refrigerate it.
- These cherries are tart - so pair them with whipped cream or a sweet dessert such as homemade ice cream.
- If you wish to make a larger batch and preserve them, fill quart jars to 1/2 inch from the top and process the jars in a boiling water bath for 20 minutes.
Notes
Note: These are delicious in homemade ice cream recipes!
