By Martha Stewart Updated on June 1, 2017
Prep Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 7 days 20 mins
Yield: 1 pint
Ingredients
- 1 cup tart cherry juice
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 split vanilla bean and seeds
- ¼ cup Luxardo maraschino liqueur
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 2 cups pitted fresh sour cherries (or drained sour cherries in light syrup)
Directions
- Boil cherry juice and sugar over medium-high heat with vanilla bean and seeds until reduced by half, about 8 minutes. Stir in Luxardo and bay leaf.
- Pour mixture over cherries.
- Cool, seal, and refrigerate at least 1 week.
Cook’s Notes
Partner up a jar with a bottle of nice whiskey (we like Nikka Coffey Grain; $65, astorwines.com) — for a gift that only gets better with age, just like you-know-who.
Originally appeared: Martha Stewart Living, June 2017