Cherry Cordial
Ingredients
Directions
Make the cordial
Combine cherries, sugar, and whiskey in a large jar.
Shake the jar often for the first three weeks.
Strain and bottle
After three weeks, strain the mixture.
Bottle the strained 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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit flavour and colour that the spirit draws out over time.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the cordial and helps draw juice from the cherries through osmosis.
- Whiskey
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the fruit and preserves the cordial.
The step that matters
Shaking the jar often for the first three weeks. Regular shaking keeps the sugar dissolving and mixing with the cherry juice, so the sugar draws juice out evenly instead of settling at the bottom and leaving fruit unsoaked.
“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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