6/13/2023 0 Comments Cornus mas recipes![]() ![]() The wine, I must add, is a stroke of genius. I made up the recipe by combining approaches from two recipes I found on the web.ġ) has a recipe adapted from an 18th-century version and uses white wine instead of water, but recommends leaving the pits for additional flavor. Grandma Fran’s Favorite Cornelian Cherry Jam In her honor, I call this recipe “Grandma Fran’s Favorite Cornelian Cherry Jam.” This year I was a couple of weeks late for the harvest, but still collected enough for this season’s jam session. The main harvest ended last week but there remain some late-blooming trees that were shaded from the sun. You can still find Cornelian cherries in Baltimore if you look carefully. I will always associate Cornelian cherry jam with these memories of giving daily bursts of flavorful pleasure to my grandmother at a time when her life experiences were otherwise becoming increasingly limited. I was pleased to have made enough to replenish her supply until the last weeks of her life in April this year. ![]() Since she was nearly blind, they helped her spread it on her toast in the morning. My grandmother loved it so much that she requested that the staff keep the jar I gave her in the refrigerator of the dining room where she took her meals. We feasted on cold cherry soup and Cornelian cherry jam all last fall. Hopkins Homewood Cornelian "cherry" grove. I have finally found my delicious Surinam cherry surrogate in Baltimore and her name is Cornelian. Everything else about them, however, from their color and astringency to their cranberry and sour cherry flavor, is nothing like their savory lookalike. Oblong, like ruby red olives, Cornelian cherries even have an olive-sized pit. In Turkey and Iran, the Wiki entry says, it is eaten with salt as a snack in summer, and traditionally drunk in a cold drink called kizilcik sherbeti. In Azerbaijan and Armenia, the fruit is used for distilling vodka, according to Wikipedia. This grove was on the southwest corner of campus, at the corner of Wyman Park and San Martin Drive, but there have to be more out there in Baltimore. (It makes a yellow flower in early spring.) They are not cherries after all, but the berries of a fruiting dogwood tree. They are native to southern Europe and southwest Asia. But what were these Kornellean cherries? Or was it Cornellean?įinally, I discovered that they are called Cornelian cherries, the European Cornel, or Cornus mas. Nothing at the grocery store or farmer’s market could compare. Its burgundy-colored and ripple-rigged cherries were divine. ![]() I had a Surinam cherry tree in my garden when I lived in San Diego. The finished product: Cornelian "cherry" jam. ![]()
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