Stone Fruit Sparkling Drink
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Difficulty:
easy
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Preparation:
20 min.
Preparation
ready in 2 h. 25 min.
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Ingredients
for
1
- Ingredients
- 3.333 cups sugar
- 2 tsps lemon juice
- 2 Tbsps Citric acid (from the chemists)
- 5 cups Cherries (pitted)
- ½ stick cinnamon
Preparation steps
1.
Place the sugar in a pan with 750 ml water and bring to the boil. Boil for approx. 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and dissolve the lemon juice and citric acid in the mixture.
2.
Add the cherries to the syrup and crush gently with a potato masher. Add the cinnamon stick and let infuse for about 2 hours.
3.
Pass the mixture through a fine sieve. Return to the pan and bring to the boil, then fill immediately into sterilised bottles. Twist the caps on tightly and let the bottles cool.
4.
To serve, pour a little syrup in a glass and top up with mineral water.