Name: Cherry Brandy
Ingredients: 1 quart cherries; 1 gallon spirits (rum, brandy, or deodorized pure spirits)

Cherry Brandy

Ingredients

1 quart cherries
1 gallon spirits (rum, brandy, or deodorized pure spirits)

Directions

Crush the cherries.
Combine the crushed cherries with one gallon of spirits.
Allow the mixture to sit for a period to infuse the flavors.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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: Supply the main fruit flavor, and crushing exposes more of their flavor to the spirit.
Spirits: Act as the solvent that draws flavor out of the cherries during infusion.

“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.