Sour Cherry Preserves with Bourbon

Bourbon is a great alcohol to use with fancy dessert dishes. Sour cherry preserves mix well with bourbon in the kitchen. It takes a keen eye for the perfect cherries to include in the mix. A dedicated kitchen hand is ready to make the dish accessible for everyone who tries it out too. Serve the preserves at any given dish with guests in the home. A breakfast spread can be livened up with the dish.

Key Takeaways:

• This recipe is meant for sour cherries and does not apply so well to sweet cherries, although lightly pickled sweet cherries with a splash of bourbon could approximate.
• You will need three half-pint jars for your preserves after you have boiled and finished prepping them.
• The total yield for the eleven and a half pounds of sour, pitted cherries should be approximately two to three half pints worth.

“For this one, you simmer sour cherries together with sugar, lemon juice, and bourbon together for five or six minutes, until the liquid thickens a little and the cherries are just soft.”

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