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Alcohol-soaked cherries in a chocolate coating
By Perry Taylor
Cherries soaked in gin and dipped in chocolate Ingredients:
About a kilo of dark, ripe cherries with their stalks
A bottle of gin
200 gms of sugar
A bar of dark dessert chocolate Utensils:
A litre jar with a twist lid
A pan of water and heat resistant bowl
Greaseproof paper
A flat baking tray or a large plate These cherries in gin are delicious. They absorb the alcohol and when covered in chocolate, taste like Mon Cherie chocolates. Wash the cherries and cut the stalks to a length of about an inch, or 2.5 centimetres. Place the cherries in the large jar until the jar is full.
Now pour in the gin until it almost reaches the top. Close the lid and keep the jar in a dark place for a week (like a cupboard in the kitchen). After a week, open the jar and add the sugar, the alcohol will have already started to colour. Turn the jar a few times so that the sugar spreads through the cherries, close the lid and put back into the dark for two months. The cherries are then ready to eat and the cherry gin is a great after dinner liqueur. For the chocolate coating, heat water in a pan and place a Pyrex dish or some other heat-resistant bowl over the pan, making sure that it doesn't touch the water. This is a 'bain marie'. Break the chocolate bar into chunks and put into the bowl. The chocolate will begin to melt as the water boils. Keep stirring the chocolate to melt the last chunks until it is smooth. Now take the cherries out of the gin and drag them by their stalks, one by one, through the chocolate, making sure that they are covered. Then place each one on the greaseproof paper, which has been laid on the flat baking tray or plate. Make sure that the cherries don't touch one another. Once the tray has been filled, place it in a refrigerator for about half an hour. These can be served as an after dinner treat, with a glass of the cherry gin. We tried this once and our guests couldn't get enough. In fact I had to go get the rest I had hidden in our other fridge to keep them satisfied.
We are eating cherries we put into gin a couple of years ago and the flavour just gets better.
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Contributor's Note
We live in a farmhouse in South West France and try to eat as green and ecologically as possible. We don't treat our fruit or vegetables and love trying recipes, old and new, from the area. This recipe is an adaption of an old English recipe, with the chocolate coating as a new 'extra'.
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A taste of France, sounds really yummy! I could get all the ingredients together but there is a danger I'll eat all the cherries while driving home, then eat all the chocolate while checking my email, and then drink all the gin before going to bed.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Well at least you didn't drink the gin on the drive home! But a little patience - plus lots of finger and bowl licking in the process - creates a combination that explodes on your tongue. I have to fight people off once they have had one. We lost a large part of our cherry tree in a storm last year, so have planted three more to maintain the supply.
Those cherries sound appealing to my sweet tooth. If anyone can find it now its missing with the rest of them.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
The birds start eating our cherries as soon as there is a hint of red. But last year we found a yellow cherry tree that produces succulent, sweet yellow cherries. The bonus being that the birds don't eat them since they assume that they're not ripe enough. In fact, we also now grow yellow raspberries. These are sweeter than the common red raspberries and are also spared the attention of the birds and other cuddly creatures that wander this part of the world.
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