Cherry Brandy

Ingredients

• morello cherries
• common black cherries
• 1 gallon water
• brandy
• 1 pound brown sugar

Instructions

1. Get equal quantities of morello and common black cherries.
2. Fill your cask, and pour on (to a ten gallon cask) one gallon of boiling water.
3. In two or three hours, fill it up with brandy.
4. Let it stand a week, then draw off all, and put in another gallon of boiling water, and fill it again with brandy.
5. At the end of the week, draw the whole off, and empty the cask of the cherries.
6. Pour in your brandy with water, to reduce the strength, first dissolving one pound of brown sugar in each gallon of your mixture.
7. If the brandy be very strong, it will bear water enough to make the cask full.