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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

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