After band last night
I needed to deal with 2kg of cherries. I'd got these for the bargain price of
£5 at a foodie market at a conservation charity's property, which is all very well but
5kg is rather a lot.
I love cherries and
it would have been entirely possible for me to eat the lot as they came but I
am sensible enough to know that while this would have been very pleasant for my
taste buds and given me a lovely sugar rush, the effect on my intestines would
not be as enjoyable.
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| This is about four fifths of the cherry haul |
So I had put out an
appeal via social media for what to do with my cherries. Pie or crumble seemed
to be popular options. Black forest gateau was also mentioned. I would love to
make (well eat) a black forest gateau but time would not permit on this
occasion.
A few ideas for
cherry preservation were suggested:
- Pre-treatment and then freezing - I may yet resort to this but it seems somehow boring
- Jam - would have been lovely but I have no suitable jars (not having anticipated any preserve making I haven't been saving them)
- Cherry brandy - which I can only imagine as something very medicinal tasting
Matt, my husband, had
found half a bottle of vodka in one of our cupboards a few days previously
(whilst looking for some sherry I think). This was quite possibly left over
from our wedding, nearly 5 years ago. So while cherry vodka seems hardly less likely to end up medicinal tasting than cherry brandy it would at least make sense based on the
available ingredients.
Firstly I did a bit
of cherry picking and chopped out any bits that weren't looking so nice,
followed by a rinse. Then Matt joined me in a production line: he cut and
stoned and I dropped the cherries into the bottle. The dropping made a very
satisfying sound. It was while I was doing the dropping that I realised why it
would have been a better idea to use a wide topped bottle: the removal of the
cherries will be a challenge.
We added some sugar (arbitrarily
4 tablespoons) and then gave the bottle a good shake around.
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| The other fifth of the cherries are in here |
We'll see just how
medicinal it tastes in a few months. And if I can manage to get the cherries
out there'll be a boozy black forest gateau to boot.
In the meantime there
are still loads of cherries left so my intestines are still not safe....
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