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Re: Weather
« Reply #40 on: April 10, 2013, 09:41:12 am »
Interesting approach.  My first thought was to do what Vigo suggested with the dried cherries.  I think I'll try taking about a 1/8 cup of dried cherries and getting some very hot water (not boiling though) and soaking them for 20 minutes or so.  Blend that together to break them up and pouring that mix into the rest of the recipe.


I haven't been able to make that work yet.  Part of my challenge is I hate sauces with any sort of solids.  Anything I put in has to end up soft enough that I can completely liquify it during the process.  I did try it once with regular ripe cherries and I was so slow at pitting them that I mostly failed.  Maybe I'll try again by just cutting them in half and then straining out the solids.

Keep in mind that you're going to reduce a good sauce to something like 20% of the original volume of liquid.  1/8 cup isn't going to do anything.  Think more like 3 cups if you want to try making an extract.  I haven't tried that approach so I'm not sure exactly how much reduction extract you'd get out of a given amount dried cherries.

The cherry sauce I want is a sour one.  Sour cherries seem to be stupidly hard to find here.  In fact any cherries are expensive.  I have considered ordering a restaurant supply size can of sour cherries as well.

Ironically I have a big cherry tree in my front yard but it's not a fruit bearing cherry tree.   :banghead:




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Re: Weather
« Reply #41 on: April 10, 2013, 10:21:51 am »

Just found this...

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/bfs/3734499878.html

Oh, no.  I think I'm going to need some help being dragged away from that.

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Re: Weather
« Reply #42 on: April 10, 2013, 11:03:47 am »
I haven't been able to make that work yet.  Part of my challenge is I hate sauces with any sort of solids.  Anything I put in has to end up soft enough that I can completely liquify it during the process.  I did try it once with regular ripe cherries and I was so slow at pitting them that I mostly failed.  Maybe I'll try again by just cutting them in half and then straining out the solids.
My mixer does a good job in breaking down solids.  Anything left over, you can run it through a food mill. 
Keep in mind that you're going to reduce a good sauce to something like 20% of the original volume of liquid.  1/8 cup isn't going to do anything.  Think more like 3 cups if you want to try making an extract.  I haven't tried that approach so I'm not sure exactly how much reduction extract you'd get out of a given amount dried cherries.
I'm thinking that the cherry flavor is a lesser part of the overall taste for what I would want.  I would add the water/cherry mix to the rest of the recipe as one part of the flavor.  Plus, I think it's easier to use a recipe that I already like and add something new to the mix to see how it enhances it.  Changing one variable instead of trying to figure out whats wrong with a brand new recipe.

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Re: Weather
« Reply #43 on: April 10, 2013, 11:11:31 am »

Sounds good.  I like to go with new recipes from meat smoking websites.  The good part about that hobby is that there is no wrong.  Everything tastes good.  Even if you don't get what you meant to get you rarely get something bad.  Slow cooking is very forgiving that way.   :)

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Re: Weather
« Reply #44 on: April 10, 2013, 11:23:26 am »
We really need to stop discussing this before lunch.  It's killing me.   :cheers:

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Re: Weather
« Reply #45 on: April 11, 2013, 08:17:50 pm »
This thread has a plethora of useful information in it and makes me want to start yet another project.

Should be re-titled BBQ....or maybe weather is right, when all these dudes hit the bathroom after the Q.
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