Ahh, Sweet cherries

Cherries are now at the farmers market and so I bought 6 pints (4 of dark red cherries and 2 Royal Anne) over the weekend.
I washed and pitted 2 quarts to get them ready to can. I used a light sugar syrup and ended up with 3 full pints from the boiling water bath and a half pint for freezing. The canned cherries come in hand somewhere around February when we always seem to get in the mood to eat chocolate cake topped with some vanilla yogurt and canned cherries.
After canning I had about a quarter cup left over of yummy cherry syrup that I added to some plain Greek yogurt for breakfast!