Ever since I can remember, my favourite preserves has been sour cherry preserves... made by my Dad. He gave me the recipe earlier this year and I ended up making some delicious cherry preserves. The good thing is that they resembled sour cherries a lot.

Do you want the recipe, too?

 

I used

800g cherries (without stones)

530g sugar

vanilla extract

juice from half a lemon

 

Remove the stones from the cherries (I used a metal straw to do that), wash the cherries and place them into a big pan.

Add the sugar and let it sit with the cherries for one hour. 

Then, add the vanilla extract and the lemon juice.

Let the mixture boil for 5 minutes on medium heat and then for 1 hour more on low heat.

Wash the jars. When the preserves is ready, pour a tablespoon of the hot preserves into each jar (I got 2 jars). 2-3 minutes later, fill the jars and lid them immediately.

 

You’ll get your summer memories back when it rains and it is cold and you are munching a toast with butter and cherry preserves!