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The German Way, As If Done in Brandy

Fermented cherries steeped in a sugar syrup, then sealed and rolled until fermentation stops.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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The German Way, As If Done in Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and prepare the cherries, cutting the stalks short.

Make the syrup

  1. In a pot, combine sugar and water, and boil until it reaches a candy stage.

Macerate and ferment

  1. Place the cherries in a new barrel.

  2. Once the sugar syrup is cool, pour it over the cherries.

  3. Seal the barrel loosely and roll it daily until fermentation stops.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Moralia cherries
Provide the fruit, flavour and the sugars that ferment into alcohol.
Sugar
Feeds the fermentation and adds sweetness that balances the fruit's tartness.

The step that matters

Boil the sugar syrup to a candy stage. The syrup must be fully dissolved and cooled before it touches the fruit. Hot syrup can damage the cherries and kill yeast, so the fermentation may stall or fail.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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