Brandied Morella Cherries

Instructions

1. Let the cherries be ripe, freshly gathered, and the finest that can be had.
2. Cut off half the length of the stalks, and drop the cherries gently into clean dry quart bottles with wide necks.
3. Leave in each sufficient space for four ounces of pounded white sugar-candy (or of brown sugar-candy, if better liked).
4. Fill them up entirely with the best French brandy, and cork them closely: the fruit will not shrivel if thus prepared.
5. A few cherry or apricot kernels, or a small portion of cinnamon, can be added when they are considered an improvement.