Canning Cherries for Cherry Pie Filling

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Published 2023-06-30
In this video, I show you how I canned fresh cherries to use for cherry pie filling.

TLDR:
Wash and pit cherries (12 cups)
Boil water (4 cups), sugar (2 1/2 cups), and lemon juice (1/3 cup)
Add cherries to the mixture
Boil until cherries foam
Remove from heat and scoop off foam
Fill jars and leave 1/2 inch headspace
Process jars in water bath canner for 35 minutes
Mix cherries with corn starch slurry to make cherry pie filling

0:00 Preparing Cherries
0:50 Cooking Cherries
1:30 Filling Jars
2:29 Processing Jars
3:06 Tips
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