Pickled Cherries for the Home Table

Pickled Cherries for the Home Table is filed under Sauces and built around distilled vinegar, sugar, and whole black peppercorns. Plan on 8 people.

Count on 20 minutes of prep, 0 minutes of cooking, about 20 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 1 cup distilled vinegar
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
• ½ cinnamon stick
• 2 whole cloves
• ½ lemon rind zest in strips
• 1 ½ cups sweet and tart cherries pitted

How the cooking goes

1. Clean and sanitize a 2 cup mason jar.
2. Tip cherries and lemon rind into jar.
3. Warm vinegar, sugar and all the spices a in a small pot just until it boils, stir to dissolve sugar.
4. Pour vinegar over cherries. Be sure all the spices make it into the jar.
5. Cool to ambient temperature then close with lid. Store in the refrigerator. Wait at least 3 days before eating for best flavor. Flavor and spices will continue to improve and intensify over time.

After it comes off the heat

Cool the pot before it goes into the refrigerator. It reheats gently on the stove the next day.

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