Black Cherry Syrup

So this is basically the same recipe as blueberry syrup, but I might have just eaten one of the best breakfasts of my life and feel like writing. I’ve always been a fan of pancakes and waffles and the sweet side of breakfast. I came up with a recipe for some very yeasty pancakes which I will post next. Somehow everything went together extremely well. Anyways so I’m working the night shift and weighing what I want to do with my forthcoming time off. I have just eaten a helping of the blueberry ice cream I posted recently, and I remember being very disappointed in the black cherry ice cream from the local creamery near where I grew up to the point where I threw it out. At the time, some twenty years ago, my buddy told me I should write the company and see if I could do the world a favor and improve this flavor. The thought that struck me, multi-tasking in the workplace was that I could make a black cherry ice cream in a similar manner to the method of the blueberry ice cream. Now granted what I’m going to come up with won’t be cost effective to sell, but it will be a definitive improvement. So in order to make the ice cream first I need syrup.

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs fresh black cherries
• 4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup Karo syrup
• Water

Instructions:

1. Depit and destem all of your cherries and place them in a large pot.
2. Cover the cherries with water submerging them by at least one inch. Your main interest here is to have enough water so that an immersion blender won’t splash.
3. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes.
4. Blend water and berries with immersion blender until there are no particles larger than sand.
5. Add sugar and Karo syrup.
6. Continue boiling off liquid until you can see the bottom of the pan in the trails of your stirring utensil. In order to do this you will have to reduce the heat and stir more often when conduction overcomes convection. i.e. a more viscous mixture will have more conduction where as a less viscous mixture will have more convection.
7. Store or serve and enjoy.