Dried sour cherry

Griotte séchée

What it is

Morello cherries are dried without the sugaring that sweet cherries get, so the acid concentrates alongside the sugar instead of being buried under it. They are a separate species from the sweet cherry and self-fertile, which is why one griotte tree in a garden fruits where a lone sweet cherry often will not.

In the kitchen

Plump them twenty minutes in warm red wine or kirsch, then tip the soaking liquid into the pan sauce — that is where most of the acid ends up. A tablespoon of them in a duck or venison sauce replaces the vinegar outright.

Goes with

Duck Venison Dark chocolate Kirsch Juniper berry Foie gras Pistachio

Same species

Bergeron apricot Almond Almond flour Almond oil Amardine Amarena cherry in syrup

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