Sour little cherries called Griottes

The kitchen has been so full of cherries and jam and juice and I have been so busy keeping everything cooling or boiling that although I didn't forget to make the griottes sorbet I did forget to blog it.

The taste of the griottes is quite sharp and I needed to add sugar to make then palatable. After simmering the griottes that I had prepared earlier ( see Damn Fine Cherry Pie) I strained the cherries and discarded the fruit. I had 500gms of juice so I added 200gms of sugar and cooked it gently until all the sugar had dissolved I tasted it and decided it needed just a bit more sugar and I also added a little lemon juice. This might seem silly as the fruit is so sour already but it is a different sort of sour and I think the lemon enhances the flavour. I poured the mixture into a jug and put it in the fridge to cool. It actually stayed in the fridge for two days and when I poured it into the ice cream maker it looked a lovely bright red colour almost terracotta. The resulting sorbet has a bright clean taste and is both sweet and tart with a touch of damson. I dont recognise a typical cherry flavour at all.

As you can see it turned out bright pink.