Cherry Cordial
Ingredients
Directions
Make the cordial
Add the cherries to a large jar.
Pour in the whiskey and add the sugar.
Shake the jar often for the first three weeks.
Bottle
After three weeks, 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 the main fruit flavor and juices that blend into the cordial.
- Whiskey
- Extracts flavor from the cherries and acts as the preserving alcohol.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the cordial and helps draw juice out of the cherries.
The step that matters
Shaking the jar often for the first three weeks. Regular shaking keeps the sugar dissolving and spreads it through the liquid, so the sugar and whiskey extract flavor evenly from the cherries instead of settling at the bottom.
“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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