Bing Cherries in Amaretto Juice - Syrup

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

Directions

1. 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. 2

   Stir. Do not burn.

3. 3

   Add food coloring and cinnamon sticks.

4. 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. 5

   Add Amaretto and stir until mixed.

6. 6

   Heat clean canning jars in the oven in water, upside down. Heat the seals in a separate pan on the stove.

7. 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. 8

   Process in a hot water bath for 20 minutes.

9. 9

   Take out and put on a toweled counter.

10. 10

    Do not put in drafts.

11. 11

    Remember to tell your guests there are pits in the cherries.