• 4 Cups Chopped or Mashed Cherries
• 1/4 Cup Lime Juice
• 3/4 Cup - 2 cup Sugar (depending on your taste)
• 3 Teaspoons Pectin Powder
• 2 Teaspoons Calcium Water

 

Wash and rinse jars, let stand in hot water. Bring lids and rings to boil, turn down heat; let stand in hot water

 

Prepare fruit. Measure fruit into pan with lime juice.

 

Add proper amount of calcium water, stir well Measure sugar into separate bowl. Thoroughly mix proper amount of pectin powder into sugar.

 

Bring fruit to a boil. Add pectin-sugar mixture, stir vigorously 1-2 min. to dissolve pectin.

Return to boil and remove from heat.

 

Fill jars to 1/4" of top. Wipe rims clean. Screw on lids. Put filled jars in boiling water to cover.

Boil 5 minutes. (add 1 minute more for every 1,000 ft. above sea level)

Remove from water. Let jars cool. Check to make sure lid has sealed.