Cherry Pie Filling

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Cherry Pie Filling

Unbelievably Delicious! 

Cherry Pie Filling is really not difficult at all to make and
the taste and texture of homemade cherry pie filling
doesn't even compare to canned...
Don't get me wrong....
I like canned cherry pie filling and
use canned in certain recipes.
Canned cherry pie filling is a fast and
easy alternative to homemade but....



Homemade Cherry Pie Filling is the
Crème de la Crème of cherry pie fillings.

Once you make your own cherry pie filling and
start using homemade in recipes,
you'll never go back to canned...

I recently bought a
ten pound tub of
Door County Cherries from Cherrylands Best,
located off highway 41 in Little Chute Wisconsin.
If your driving down 41, you can't miss it....
It's the building with the huge Cherry out front!

The cherries came already blanched and pitted,
so half the work was already done for me.
The cherries came frozen also so
I let them thaw in my refrigerator for a few days and
then let the cherries come to room temperature before I used them.

If you can get your hands on fresh cherries this summer,
by all means.....buy them.
Then you too,
can make homemade cherry pie filling,
then during the holidays,
you can share a small slice of summer too.

Cherry Pie Filling

Ingredients

• 6 quarts cherries, thawed if frozen
• 7 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cups clear jel
• 9 1/3 cups cold water, cherry juice, cran-cherry juice or a combination of all three
• 1/2 cup lemon juice, bottled

Cooking Directions

1. Select cherries, fresh or frozen. Wash canning jars, bands and lids in soapy water. Rinse well.
2. Wash and sort cherries. Pit cherries with a cherry pitter. Blanch cherries, (up to 7 cups at a time) in a large pot with at least one gallon of boiling water. Boil each batch 1 minute after water returns to a boil. Drain, keep hot cooked fruit in a covered boil.
3. Make liquid for filling; mix together clear jel with sugar. Add water or juice. Stir together. Stir and cook over medium-high heat until mixture thickens and begins to bubble. Add lemon juice, boil one minute, stirring constantly. Fold the cherries into the hot liquid.
4. Fill the jars with cherry mixture, removing air bubbles. Fill to within one inch of top of jars. Wipe any spilled filling off the top, seat lid and tighten ring.
5. Process the filled jars in a canner, keeping them covered with at least one inch of boiling water. Process for 25 minutes. Lift jars out of the canner, let cool undisturbed for 24 hours.

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