Vishnya marinovannaya - spiced pickled cherries
2 Quarts
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | pounds | Sweet cherries fresh |
| 1½ | cup | Sugar |
| 1 | cup | Water |
| 3 | cups | Cider vinegar |
| 4 | eaches | All spice berries |
| 4 | eaches | Cardamom pods, whole |
| 2 | tablespoons | Cherry brandy |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Mace |
Directions
Remove cherries, wash, place in a crock and cover with the vinegar.
DO NOT pit the cherries! Let stand overnight, drain pouring vinegar into a sauce pan. Bring the vinegar to a boil, add sugar, mace, cinnamon, allspice, & cardamom. Simmer for 15 - 20 minutes. Cool, add the cherry brandy. Pour the pickling liquid oevr the cherries and allow to stand for 3 days. After 3 days drain the cherries, bring the liquid to a boil. Allow it to cool and then pack the cherries into a sterilized preserve jars. Cover with the liquid and seal the jars.
Allow to stand at least 30 days before use. ORIGIN: Olga Federinkova, Pyatigorsk, Russia, circa 1996