Preserving cherries in brandy

This is the recipe I've been dying to try since my mum, my sister and I did the Christmas Preserving class at My Green Garden.

Whilst we didn't have time to make cherries in brandy each, we did learn to make and took home a jar of each of the following: 

• Savoury onion jam
• Figs infused with Earl Grey tea preserved in brandy
• Cranberry Chutney
• Spicy Eggplant Pickle

As you can see from the photo, we also learnt a variety of techniques for dressing up the jars so that we could give them away as gifts, if we wanted to. (Not a chance! These are mine! I will admit that my decorating needs some work, but I was rushing a bit)

In addition to all of this, our lovely teacher Maria gave us all a copy of the instructions for preserving cherries in brandy.

So when my mum and sister drove out to Cherryhill Orchards to get our cherries for Christmas, I asked them to get me a box as well. 

My sister's cherry tree had produced almost enough cherries to fill her own jars (only one jar ended up mixed), leaving me to use the dark red Cherryhill Orchards cherries for my own. 

As you can see from the size of my jars, I was maybe a little bit too excited about preserving cherries in brandy. 

We were a little bit rushed towards the end, as we did this at my parents' house on a weeknight, so I had to get home so I could get home at a decent hour to go to bed as I had work the next day.

It's all looking good so far!