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      Title: Amaretto Cherries With Dumplings
 Categories: Fruits, Booze, Breads
      Yield: 6 Servings

     29 oz Pitted tart cherries
           - (2 cans)
    3/4 c  Sugar
    1/4 c  Corn starch
    1/8 ts Salt
    1/4 c  Amaretto -OR-
    1/2 ts Almond extract

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      1 c  A-P flour
    1/4 c  Sugar
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Lemon zest; grated
    1/8 ts Salt
    1/3 c  Milk
      3 tb Butter; melted
           Vanilla ice cream (optional)

  Drain cherries, reserving 1/4 cup juice. Place cherries in a 3 qt
  slow cooker.

  In a small bowl, mix sugar, corn starch, and salt; stir in reserved
  juice until smooth. Stir into cherries. Cook, covered, on high
  7 hours. Drizzle amaretto over cherry mixture.

  For dumplings, in a small bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder,
  lemon zest, and salt. In another bowl, whisk milk and melted
  butter. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened.

  Drop by tablespoonfuls on top of hot cherry mixture. Cook, covered,
  45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of dumplings
  comes out clean. If desired, serve warm, with ice cream.

  Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  Recipe FROM: https://www.tasteofhome.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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