Very Cherry Cherry Vanilla Jelly

Ingredients

• Cherries - Pitted, Chopped - 4 to 6 cups
• 2 Cups White Wine or Water
• Juice from one orange and 1 lemon
• 2 vanilla beans, sliced to release the beans
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 3 Cups Sugar
• 1 Cup of Splenda
• 1 pkg of low sugar pectin (the only stuff I use)

Instructions

1. Boil cherries in white wine with vanilla beans until the fruit is fork tender.
2. Puree in a blender, remove the vanilla beans if you can before.
3. Strain the mixture thru a small wire sieve. The color should be beautiful.
4. Pour blended cherries back into heavy pot, add pectin and bring to rolling boil for 1 minute.
5. Add sugar, bring back to rolling boil for 1 full minute. Pretty isn’t it!
6. Ladle into sterilized jars and process for 5 minutes in water bath.