Cherry Cordial
Ingredients
Directions
Combine cherries, sugar, and whiskey in a large jar.
Shake the jar often for the first three weeks.
After three weeks, strain and bottle the mixture.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide fruit flavor and aroma, and their juice mixes with the whiskey to form the liquid.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and draws juice from the cherries, helping sweeten the finished cordial.
- Whiskey
- Acts as the solvent and preservative, extracting flavor from the cherries and keeping the mixture stable.
The step that matters
Shaking the jar during the first three weeks. Shaking mixes the sugar as it dissolves, so it draws juice from the cherries evenly. Without it, sugar can settle and the infusion may extract unevenly.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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