Recipe: Pickled Sour Cherries

My mom doesn’t like cherries.

Well, that’s not completely true.  I’ll amend the statement: my mom doesn’t like maraschino cherries. The nearly-fluorescent syrupy sweet things that barely resemble anything that could have ever grown on a tree.

When I was a kid, this was a pretty sweet deal.  Ice cream sundaes?  I got the cherry.  You know, unless my brother got it.  But there was a one in two chance I was getting an extra cherry.

Then I got older, and less excited about cherries, and more excited about boozey things that cherries go in.

So, around November of last year, I started experimenting with making cherries my mom would actually like.

Here’s the resulting recipe.

Pickled Sour Cherries

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Recipe Type: Condiment

Author: Tea

Prep time: 45 mins

Cook time: 40 mins

Total time: 1 hour 25 mins

Delicious pickled sour cherries made with sherry

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sherry vinegar
• 1/2 cup sweet sherry
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 Tb whole peppercorns
• 2 pods black cardamom
• 1/2 cup unrefined sugar
• 1 1/2 cups dried pitted sour cherries

Instructions

1. Put vinegar, sherry, cinnamon, peppercorns, and cardamom in a small saucepan
2. Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to medium
3. Add sugar, stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved
4. Add cherries. Cook at medium heat for five minutes, then reduce heat to low
5. Cook over low heat for 30 minutes, until liquid has become thick and syrupy and cherries are partially reconstituted.

Notes

You can replace the sherry with other liquor, like whiskey, brandy, port, or rum.
Cherries will keep in the fridge for a long time. You can also jar them in sealed jars like other pickles.

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Recipe: Pickled Sour Cherries

My mom doesn’t like cherries.

Well, that’s not completely true.  I’ll amend the statement: my mom doesn’t like maraschino cherries. The nearly-fluorescent syrupy sweet things that barely resemble anything that could have ever grown on a tree.

When I was a kid, this was a pretty sweet deal.  Ice cream sundaes?  I got the cherry.  You know, unless my brother got it.  But there was a one in two chance I was getting an extra cherry.

Then I got older, and less excited about cherries, and more excited about boozey things that cherries go in.

So, around November of last year, I started experimenting with making cherries my mom would actually like.

Here’s the resulting recipe.

Pickled Sour Cherries

#ratingval# from #reviews# reviews

Print

Recipe Type: Condiment

Author: Tea

Prep time: 45 mins

Cook time: 40 mins

Total time: 1 hour 25 mins

Delicious pickled sour cherries made with sherry

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sherry vinegar
• 1/2 cup sweet sherry
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 Tb whole peppercorns
• 2 pods black cardamom
• 1/2 cup unrefined sugar
• 1 1/2 cups dried pitted sour cherries

Instructions

1. Put vinegar, sherry, cinnamon, peppercorns, and cardamom in a small saucepan
2. Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to medium
3. Add sugar, stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved
4. Add cherries. Cook at medium heat for five minutes, then reduce heat to low
5. Cook over low heat for 30 minutes, until liquid has become thick and syrupy and cherries are partially reconstituted.

Notes

You can replace the sherry with other liquor, like whiskey, brandy, port, or rum.
Cherries will keep in the fridge for a long time. You can also jar them in sealed jars like other pickles.

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On Monday, I was not going to the Harry Potter midnight screening tomorrow. I had made plans with Rina to do some drawing, and the midnight Harry Potter was the farthest thing from my mind. I didn’t even know what date it was.

Back when the first movie came out, a friend of a friend invited me to go to the midnight showing at the Ziegfield. He was a huge movie buff, but I don’t even think he’d read the books. I had read the first three, but I think Goblet of Fire was out, and I hadn’t read it yet. I enjoyed the books, but this was before I had gotten at all involved in fandom.

The thing was, I was never really in the fandom for the books. I just…started meeting people. Amazing people. People who got me through some really hard times, even if they didn’t know what was going on in my life at the time because I didn’t know them well enough to tell them.

It was always about the people for me. A lot of you are those people.

So, when Rina had to change our plans, I immediately texted spiralstairs who was one of those people. I think she’s the first person from hogwarts_elite whom I met in person. She had been looking for someone to go with, but all her friends were busy.

Suddenly, I was not only going to see the last Harry Potter movie at midnight, but I was going to see it in the same theater where I saw the first one.

So then, Kate asked about costumes. I have some Harry Potter-themed clothing, but It’s either “all out” sort of stuff– like full dress robes– or it’s up at my parents’ in Connecticut (like my Gryffindor tie). So I was like, eh, I don’t think I can do it.

But then, when I was dressing for work this morning (I think it was this morning), I took a look in my closet. Not for a costume, but for clothes for work. And I came to a stunning realization.

In two days, I went from not going at all, to this:

PS: I am actually wearing vintage skivvies under that dress. Since you can’t actually see those.

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

A lot can change in two days.

On Monday, I was not going to the Harry Potter midnight screening tomorrow. I had made plans with Rina to do some drawing, and the midnight Harry Potter was the farthest thing from my mind. I didn’t even know what date it was.

Back when the first movie came out, a friend of a friend invited me to go to the midnight showing at the Ziegfield. He was a huge movie buff, but I don’t even think he’d read the books. I had read the first three, but I think Goblet of Fire was out, and I hadn’t read it yet. I enjoyed the books, but this was before I had gotten at all involved in fandom.

The thing was, I was never really in the fandom for the books. I just…started meeting people. Amazing people. People who got me through some really hard times, even if they didn’t know what was going on in my life at the time because I didn’t know them well enough to tell them.

It was always about the people for me. A lot of you are those people.

So, when Rina had to change our plans, I immediately texted spiralstairs who was one of those people. I think she’s the first person from hogwarts_elite whom I met in person. She had been looking for someone to go with, but all her friends were busy.

Suddenly, I was not only going to see the last Harry Potter movie at midnight, but I was going to see it in the same theater where I saw the first one.

So then, Kate asked about costumes. I have some Harry Potter-themed clothing, but It’s either “all out” sort of stuff– like full dress robes– or it’s up at my parents’ in Connecticut (like my Gryffindor tie). So I was like, eh, I don’t think I can do it.

But then, when I was dressing for work this morning (I think it was this morning), I took a look in my closet. Not for a costume, but for clothes for work. And I came to a stunning realization.

In two days, I went from not going at all, to this:

PS: I am actually wearing vintage skivvies under that dress. Since you can’t actually see those.

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.