Over 10,000 Cherries Steuben’s/Ace Pit & Canned In House
10,000 cherries canned by Steuben’s and Ace Bar managers
Steuben’s and Ace managers have been hard at work preparing some of their best secret ingredients.
It looks like bar managers Ryan and Randy Layman have been quite busy lately, pitting and canning over 10,000 cherries to make their popular garnishes used in many of their cocktails. Instead of going for pre-packaged cherries, they are offering their clients the best quality cherries, preserved in light syrup. The recipe adds robust flavor.
Straight from the source, here is the not so secret recipe, so you can prepare your own jar of cherries.
Recipe for 1 jar:
- Wash, stem and pit the cherries (they use Washington & Oregon Bing cherries), but any cherries will do. Keep the cherry pits
- Syrup: Bring 14 oz. water to boil then reduce to a simmer. Add 14 oz. sugar and cherry pits into the boiling water and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat, strain cherry pits from the syrup and add 4oz whiskey to the syrup. Steuben’s and Ace use Wild Turkey Rye.
- After soaking cherries overnight in the syrup (in the refrigerator), strain the syrup from cherries and bring the syrup to a light simmer again.
- Fill a jar with cherries, as many as you can, without squeezing them too much, fill the jar with syrup and close the lid tight.
- Place jar in boiling water and let sit for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes torn heat off but let the jar sit in water for 10 more minutes.
- Remove jar of cherries from water and let it cool off overnight. Make sure the jar is perfectly sealed
