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Home Made Maraschino Cherries
Learn the story and how to make this delicious and peculiar cherries.
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
Calories: 9086 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
Italian
Ingredients
- 2 2 liters of water
- 1 1 tablespoon pickling salt
- 2 2 kg pitted sweet cherries
- 2 2 kg sugar
- 3 3 cups water
- Juice of one lemon
- 30 30 ml Red food coloring
- 30 30 almond extract
Instructions
- In a large pot boil water and salt, stirring until the salt is dissolved.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes – pour this over the pitted sweet cherries.
- Cover and set aside 12 hours or overnight.
- Drain cherries, discard the brine and rinse well in cold water.
- Set aside.
- In a medium-sized pot, mix the sugar, the lemon juice and the red food coloring together and just-just bring to a boil, stirring well to dissolve sugar.
- Remember remove from heat as soon as the sugar is dissolved.
- Pour over the cherries, cover, and let stand for 24 hours.
- Drain cherries but reserve the juice.
- Set cherries aside.
- Bring the reserved juice to a boil again, remove from heat and stir in the almond extract that you pour over the cherries.
- Pack the cherries and the juice in hot sterilized jars and seal well.
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Nutrition Information
Serving
20g
Calories
9086kcal
(454%)
Carbohydrates
2323g
(774%)
Protein
21g
(42%)
Fat
4g
(6%)
Sodium
160mg
(7%)
Potassium
4524mg
(129%)
Fiber
42g
(168%)
Sugar
2256g
(4512%)
Vitamin A
1280IU
(26%)
Vitamin C
140mg
(156%)
Calcium
363mg
(36%)
Iron
8.2mg
(46%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 1Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 9086
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 20g | |
| Calories | 9086kcal | 454% |
| Carbohydrates | 2323g | 774% |
| Protein | 21g | 42% |
| Fat | 4g | 6% |
| Sodium | 160mg | 7% |
| Potassium | 4524mg | 96% |
| Fiber | 42g | 168% |
| Sugar | 2256g | 4512% |
| Vitamin A | 1280IU | 26% |
| Vitamin C | 140mg | 156% |
| Calcium | 363mg | 36% |
| Iron | 8.2mg | 46% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.