Summary

Ingredients

• 1 kg cherry (s), washed and weighed pitted
• 1 ½ liters water
• 1 ½ kg sugar
• 1 piece (s) lemon (s), the juice this (approx. 50ml)
• 50 g citric acid, or vitamin C powder

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Instructions

1. Juice the cherries. Bring the water to a boil and dissolve the sugar in it. Remove the saucepan from the heat, add the remaining ingredients and the cherry juice and stir well.
2. Let it steep for an hour, put it back on the stove, bring to the boil briefly and fill the still bubbly syrup to the brim in 3 1 liter bottles. Rinse the bottles with hot water beforehand and let them drip off while standing on your head.
3. To let it cool down.
4. The syrup tastes best in cold mineral water with a slice of lemon!