Cherries in vodka
Illustration by Fortuna Todisco per Essen A Taste Magazine©
In these days cherries are being celebrated and last weekend’s Vignola Cherry Festival has been succesful, so we want to celebrate its blaze of flavonoids as well by preparing the traditional conserve of Emilia grandmothers, in order to convey the feeling of preservation and tasting in time and in the calm that is necessary in summer.
If you are passionate readers, we recommend you two timeless books of Emilia grandmotherss: “L’orto di un perdigiorno. Confessioni di un apprendista ortolano” by Pia Pera published by Tea and the poetry book by Ilma Derini “Ciligie sotto spirito” published by Aliberti.
When it’s the time for cherries
We go harvest cherries
We go harvest them with a basket
This is my garden’s fruit
The skirt is large, large
The waistband is tight, tight
The shoes are pointed, pointed
I shall dance with you, I shall dance with you
Cherries in vodka
Ingredients
1kg large firm ripe cherries
300 gr sugar
1 lt vodka
How to do
Wash and dry the cherries, cut the stem with scissorss, to a cm from the fruit.
Put them in a hermetically sealed jar. Add the sugar.
Pour the vodka in only when the sugar has melted to half its weight. It is important to shake the jar from time to time to help the syrup’s formation.
Will be special in winter, served on fruit salad or on a cake.
