Cherries, Maraschino

Cherries may be washed and served raw, or they may be cooked and used as a topping for various dishes. Served alone, sweet cherries, fresh or canned, are an excellent dessert fruit, or they may be used in sauces, fresh fruit dishes, gelatin desserts, and ice cream. Sour cherries are used primarily in cooked desserts. Cherry pie is an all-time favorite, but there are other baked goods requiring sour cherries. Maraschino cherries are used as an accent on other desserts or toppings and in cocktails. They are available with or without stems. Candied cherries are used in baked goods. 

Fruit and Vegetable Products. Sorbates are appHed at 0.05—0.1 wt % as a fungistat for pmnes, pickles, reHshes, maraschino cherries, oHves, and figs (64,112). The same levels extend shelf life of prepared salads such as potato salad, cole slaw, and tuna salad (99). In fermented vegetables, sorbates protect the finished product by retarding yeasts during fermentation or in the cover brine (r65,r72—r74,r94). 

During storage, natural pigments often deteriorate with time because of exposure to light, heat, air, and moisture or because of interaction of the components of the food with each other or with the packaging material. The color of maraschino cherries, for example, fares so poorly with storage that they are routinely bleached then artificially colored. 

In Astoria, the request sent a freezing chill down the spines of Mr. Zaric and Mr. Kosmas, like the time Mr. Kosmas saw a maraschino cherry in a cosmopolitan. 

Popular tastes have changed the standard manhattan, invented in the late nineteenth century, into a bourbon drink, most bartenders agree, with sweet vermouth and a maraschino cherry or twist of lemon. 

Stir the ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry. ... 

The specialty cocktail list includes die Kind of Blue, which sells best downstairs at die jazz club, explained Malysa Volpicelli, the beverage director. It is named for die Miles Davis standard, and is a variation on die Aviation, a gin drink davored with maraschino, an Italian cherry liqueur. 

The Kind of Blue is rescued by its jazz-cool pale blue and the taste of maraschino, which is distilled like brandy from marasca cherries and their pits, which are crushed and included and which give the liqueur, and the cocktail, an artisanal bitter-almond taste. In the nineteenth century, maraschino is what cherries were marinated in to produce maraschino cherries, the drink garnish. Maraschino cherries are now brined chemically. 

Saks Fifth Avenue, the department store, requested a private-label bar condiment program for its houseware boutiques last year, which included martini olives, maraschino cherries and gibson onions.The items were provided by Fodda, a New York specialty food company. Keith Bacon, its president, was previously in die fashion business, at Alfred Dunhill. 

Dactylopius coccus insects, now bred in Peru and the Canary Islands, produce carmine, as the actual colorant is called, for the food and cosmetics industries. It is used in a wide range of items, from lipstick to maraschino cherries. Cochineal is also... 

Erythrosin (Gr spi/fif/ocr-red), tetraiodofluorescein, was synthesized first by Gnehm [220] and named by him. It has been used as a food coloring for many years and is the red dye of maraschino cherries, Tylenol capsules, and bright red luncheon meats. It is known as FD C Food Dyers and Colorists 3 and has received substantial attention from the FDA over the last 10 years since it causes bladder cancer when ingested in huge amounts by rats. It has recently been banned as a food dye in the United States, but is a source of dietary iodine for the Japanese [221], It is also used as a stain. 

Ice cubes, 1 teaspoon raspberry syrup, 1 dessertspoon maraschino, 1 dessertspoon curaqao, 4 cl brandy, half a peach, 4 cocktail cherries, 1 pineapple cube, mineral water. 

Giusti, M.M. and Wrolstad, R.E. 1996b. Radish anthocyanin extract as a natural red colorant for maraschino cherries. J. Food Sci. 61, 688-694. 

Liqueurs or cordials are spirits sweetened and flavored with veg-.etable aromatics, and frequently colored anisette is flavored with aniseed absinthe, with wormwood curafoa, with orange-peel kirschwasser, with cherries, the stones being cracked and the spirits distilled from the bruised fermented fruit kilmmel, with cummin and caraway seeds maraschino, with cherries noyedu, with peach and apricot kernels. 

Products and Uses A flavoring in products such as beverages, chewing gum, confections, gelatins, ice cream, maraschino cherries, and puddings. 

Maraschino cherry Pet foods Ice creams Sausage Snack... 

Bullis, D. E., and Wiegand, E. H. 1931. Bleaching and dyeing Royal Ann cherries for Maraschino or fruit salad use. Oregon Agr. Expt, Sta, Bull. No. 276, 1-30. 

During distillation the first and last fractions are separated. The main distillate contains 60% by volume or more alcohol. It is usually diluted with water to about 40-50% by volume alcohol and is marketed as clear, colorless brandy. The low levels of benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide which both contribute to the flavor are derived from the enzymatic cleavage of seed amygdalin. Kirschwasser, as is the case with Marasca from Dalmatia or Italy, is often used as an admixture in liqueur or cordial production (curacao, cherry brandy, maraschino, etc.). 

PROCESSING. In the United States, 54% of the sweet cherries are sold fresh, 10% frozen, 7% canned, and 30% brined (maraschino or confectionery use). Of the sour cherries, 3% are sold fresh, 35% are canned, 59% are frozen, and 3% are brined. Cherries sold fresh include cherries sold for home use. 

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