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Homemade cherry liqueur with vodka
Homemade cherry liqueur with cherries, sugar, and vodka, steeped for a week, strained, heated, and bottled. Makes 3 liters.
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- Prep time
- 40 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Servings
- 3 liters
- Difficulty
- Easy
This homemade sweet cherry liqueur calls for just three ingredients: cherries, granulated sugar, and vodka. Cover pitted cherries with sugar and vodka in a jar, then let them steep in a warm place for a week, shaking the jar daily. Strain the juice through cheesecloth and heat it with the remaining sugar and vodka. The next day, bring it to a boil once more and bottle it. You can also add a little cinnamon while the cherries steep for a fragrant liqueur that makes a lovely gift.
Ingredients
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Instructions
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Place the cherries, preferably pitted, in a 3-liter jar. Cover with 1 kg of sugar and pour in 0.5 l of vodka. Cover the jar with a cotton cloth or stretch gauze and let steep in a warm place for 7 days. Shake the contents daily.
After a week, strain the infused juice through a cheesecloth-lined strainer and a funnel into a larger clean jar to remove any small particles. Pour the juice into a pot, add the remaining 1 kg of sugar and 0.5 l of vodka, and heat until the sugar dissolves. Strain it again through a cheesecloth-lined strainer into a container.
Return the container to a warm place. The next day, bring the liqueur to a boil one last time, then pour it into bottles with airtight closures.
Tip: For a more fragrant liqueur, add a little cinnamon to the cherries while they steep.
Tip: The cherries left after straining are soaked in alcohol and can be used in desserts or served with ice cream for adults. Store the bottles of liqueur in a cool, dark place.
Nutrition facts
Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients
- Energy
- 199 kcal
- Protein
- 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates
- 42 g
- of which sugars
- 40 g
- Fat
- 0.1 g
- of which saturates
- 0.0 g
- Fiber
- 1.1 g
- Salt
- 0.0 g
Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.
This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Čerešňový likér s vodkou podľa babky
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