Candied cherries

[wiseheart]

I've used up my (very limited) stash when I gave Mary Berry's cherry cake a try. Unfortunately, they are hard to get over here, even in good times. Last year I found some at Lidl right before Christmas, but never since. I gave Heidi a phone call; she's most talented at finding stuff, but she told me that she hasn't seen any since Christmas, either.

Usually, I get mine when we go to Austria with Mum - there are to find in every big supermarket over there - but that's clearly not an option right now. I'm thinking of trying my hand on making some myself, but I'm a bit anxious about it. I have perhaps two or three small cans (150-200 gram each) frozen, from the ones my friend Evie brought us back in June, but I'd hate to ruin them. Firstly, they're delicious and secondly, cherries were insanely expensive this year. So, I'm still hoping to find some ready-made ones either at Tesco or at Interspar eventually. It isn't so as if I'd need them now. I just like to keep a small stash of such stuff, so that I can bake whenever and whatever the urge overcomes me. *g*

In other news, I've made modest headway with both "A Stitch in Time" and "Sleeping Dragons 5 - The Old Terror". I've posted the new chapter of the latter to otherworlds_lib and will put it up to AO3 during the weekend, too. I've also finished posting Eye Witness to AO3, and even got a comment to it - a positive one! Yay! It is an old, Tosh-centered Torchwood story that I forgot to post there earlier. I was surprised that people still got interested.

Also, we survived the monthly flat cleaning. Now I'm tired. Time to play a little solitary and then watch some telly.

Comments

[meathiel]

I wouldn't even know if one can get candied cherries here at the moment, it's not something I ever buy.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

damn, I'm sorry to hear that. Fresh cherries weren't overpriced here but the season's over now.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to catch up on my email box full of fit notifications....getting there. Sloooooowly.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of companies who normally make luxury items like that, switched to making basics during the pandemic. Strangely, cheese seems to have suffered here. You can get any kind of chedder you could possibly want, but no cheshire/lancashire/wensleydale.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't use them too much, either. It's just that gatherer's instinct: I like to have *everything* in stash! just in case I might need them.

Usually I decorate Butterplätzchen for Christmas with candied cherries.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

All kinds of fruits are being overpriced here this year. I never thought I'd say the day when apples would cost more than bananas.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's all right. Slow is good. It gives you the chance to enjoy what you do.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, you can rarely get these kind of things here anyway, except before Christmas. I usually get them when we go to Austria - which is out of the question right now, I'm afraid. *sigh* Of course, the fact that I cannot hop over to Vienna or St. Pölten for a day is the real loss, not the baking ingredients. I miss Austria horribly.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

bananas are always super cheap here.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

When I was young, they were very expensive here. You couldn't even get them all year, just before Christmas, and usually you had to stand in the queue for a long time and pray they wouldn't run out of them before it would be your turn. The same for oranges, actually. Apples, on the other hand were grown in-country in huge quantities and were the cheapest possible fruit all year long.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I make a shopping list for each trip to the supermarket, and it amazes me each time what on the list is not available. Last week it was canned peas, go figure. It truly makes meal planning difficult. We had cherries of two varieties in June, but now the season is over, they are non-existent. My taste in fruit is limited to cherries and melons. Cherries are a treat, but seasonable, unless one settles for canned, in heavy syrup. At the moment, Watermelon is in good supply and best quality, so that is my fruit of the day. Grats on the monthly cleaning, a chore, but always nice after it is over.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm mainly an apple person (small wonder, considering my given name), but eat any possible fruit that comes my way. Candied cherries are exclusively for baking and user cut into tiny pieces - they are so horribly sweet otherwise. But they look very pretty on biscuits.

I'm fortunate that - after the first hysteria - grocery shops have managed to return to normal. I'm also fortunate that I live in the focus of four grocery shops, all of which I can reach on foot if I have to. It's the bad back that causes the problems: I have to make several trips now while a few years ago I could haul everything home in one.