Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cherry spoon sweet. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Serve alone, with coffee, or as a topping on yogurt, vanilla ice cream, tarts, or other desserts. Sour cherry spoon sweet is always served with a glass of cold water. Using a slotted spoon, transfer cherries to a heatproof jar; set aside. Put cherries and sugar into a large bowl; toss gently to mix well.

Cherry spoon sweet is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Cherry spoon sweet is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cherry spoon sweet using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cherry spoon sweet:

1. Make ready 2 kg black sour cherries
2. Make ready 1/2 cup water
3. Get 2 kg sugar
4. Prepare 2 tbsp lemon juice or citric acid

In my native country of Albania it is used as a topping or as a Spoon Sweet to welcome people in your house when they visit. Cherry Gliko (Liko Qershije) Luckily, the process of recreating this spoon sweet in your kitchen is pretty easy once you get past having to pit the cherries. For this, we recommend using a cherry pitter (that's the one we have). Back in the day people would use needles, bobbie pins, anything like that.

Instructions to make Cherry spoon sweet:

1. Wash and drain the cherries well.  Place them on absorbent kitchen paper and let dry.  Stone the fruit over the preserving pan, so no juice is wasted.  The stoning should be done with a cherry stoner, if available.  Reserve the kernels in a bowl of water.
2. Having stoned all the cherries, cover them with the sugar and add the water in which the kernels were soaking.  Allow to stand overnight.
3. Bring the cherries to a boil and cook until the juices thicken, removing with a slotted spoon any scum that appears.  Just before end of cooking time, add the lemon juice or citric acid.
4. Remove the pan from the heat, and allow to cool. While they are cooling, grasp and shake and twirl the pan  several times, to stir the preserves. This will allow the fruit to soak up more liquid and to swell up more.

For this, we recommend using a cherry pitter (that's the one we have). Back in the day people would use needles, bobbie pins, anything like that. Some still do, but using a cherry pitter makes life easy. Sour cherry spoon sweet is probably the most popular preserve in Greece. Serve as a topping for dark chocolate ice cream and be amazed!

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