
Sweet Cherry Preserve recipes

Cherry Vanilla Pie Filling
Course: Canning
Ingredients
- 5 cups sweet cherries, washed, stemmed, and pitted
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 tbsp cornstarch
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 vanilla bean (optional)
- 1 tsp cinnamon (optional)
Instructions
- 1. Place the cherries, sugar and lemon juice in a large non reactive pot.2. Split and scrape one vanilla bean and add it to the pot.3. Heat on low until cherries release their juices about 15- 20 minutes.4. Mean while mix the water and cornstarch; set aside.5. Increase the heat and bring to a boil.6. Once boiling mix the water and cornstarch well and add to the pot stirring constantly.7. Once mixture thickens (which will happen almost immediately if it was boiling)remove pot from heat and continue to stir for about a minute to prevent scorching.8. Immediately fill a hot quart jar leaving ½ inch head space.9. Wipe rim and place flat lid and band on the jar.10. Process in a hot water bath for 35 minutes.
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Quick Pickled Cherries
Course: Condiment
Ingredients
- 1 lb Northwest Cherries Pitted and halved
- 1.5 cups Water
- 0.5 cups Vinegar Rice wine or Apple Cider
- 1 tbsp Pickling Spice Blend
- 1 lg Sprig Fresh Thyme
- 6" strip lemon zest
- 0.5 Cubic inch Fresh Ginger
- Pinch of salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
- Rinse, pit and halve cherries. Set aside. Combine all remaining ingredients in a small pot and bring to low boilover medium heat. Add cherries, removefrom heat and cover for 20-30 minutes (to taste). Pour into strainer with large holes over sinkand rinse very briefly with cool water to clear spices.Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator to cooland store or use immediately.NOTE: If available, a mesh ball tea infusermay be used to contain the pickling spice mix. If used, allow to boil for 3 minutes before adding the cherries and omitrinse step.
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Cherry Jam - Low Sugar
Course: Canning
Ingredients
- 4 cups NW Sweet cherries Pitted, halved and mashed
- 1 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 4 tsp Pomona's Universal calcium water
- 3 tsp Pomona's Universal pectin powder
Instructions
- Prepare cherries.2. Combine mashed cherries into pot with lemon juice and calcium water. Stir well.3. In a separate bowl combine and mix sugar and pectin powder.4. Over medium-high heat, bring fruit mixture to a boil. Add pectin-sugar mixture. Stir for 1-2 minutes until sugardissolves. Bring to a full boil. Remove from heat.5. Fill prepared jars with jam leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Wipe rims, apply lids, and rings (finger tight). Process jarsin a boiling water bath for 10minutes.6. Remove jars from hot water canner. Let cool on a folded towel. Let set for 12-24hrs.
Notes
To mash tough skinned fruit, combine cherries with 1/2 cup of water and bring to a boil. Simmer 5mins then mash.
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Quick Pickled Cherries
Course: Condiment
Ingredients
- 1 lb Northwest Cherries Pitted and halved
- 1.5 cups Water
- 0.5 cups Vinegar Rice wine or Apple Cider
- 1 tbsp Pickling Spice Blend
- 1 lg Sprig Fresh Thyme
- 6" strip lemon zest
- 0.5 Cubic inch Fresh Ginger
- Pinch of salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
- Rinse, pit and halve cherries. Set aside. Combine all remaining ingredients in a small pot and bring to low boilover medium heat. Add cherries, removefrom heat and cover for 20-30 minutes (to taste). Pour into strainer with large holes over sinkand rinse very briefly with cool water to clear spices.Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator to cooland store or use immediately.NOTE: If available, a mesh ball tea infusermay be used to contain the pickling spice mix. If used, allow to boil for 3 minutes before adding the cherries and omitrinse step.
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Cherry Habanero Jam
Course: Canning
Author: Flouronmyface
Ingredients
- 4 cups pitted and coarsely chopped NW Sweet Cherries
- 1 cup finely diced red pepper
- 1 habanaro pepper finely minced
- 4 1/2 cups white sugar
- 6 tbsp Ball real fruit pectin classic
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 1 tbsp butter
- rubber gloves
Instructions
- Wash cherries then stem and pit them into a large bowl, catching as much cherry juice as possible.Coarsely chop the pitted cherries and place them into your large canning pot.Add the lime juice to the pot of cherries and toss well.Dice the red pepper and place into the pot with the cherries.** Put rubber gloves on and finely mince the habanero pepper. For a mild cherry pe,pper jam remove all seeds and remove the pith. For a medium-hot jam leave the seeds in. For a hotter jam mince the entire habanero pepper with seeds and pith and place into the pot with the other ingredients.Add pectin to the pot and heat on low, occasionally stirring until the pectin melts.Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a roiling bowl.Add sugar, stirring until the sugar is mostly dissolved.Return to a roiling boil.Add butter to cut down on foaming. (if using)Boil for one minute.Remove the pot from the stove. and skim off any excess foam.Fill your prepared jars leaving a ¼ inch head space.Wipe rim of jar with a damp paper towel, place flat lid on top of jar and place band on screwing until just hand tightened.Process your filled jars in a hot water bath for 10 minutes.Makes 6 ½ pints.
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