Marschino cherries

[tamarinne]

Someone out there (was it you, learnedax ?) was talking about making their own maraschino cherries at some point in the past.  (That narrows it down, I know.)    Did that someone actually end up making them?  Was it worth it?  What recipe did you use?  We're buying a bottle of Luxardo to try to recreate The World's Best Brandy Manhattan that we had this weekend, and I started wondering about real vs. imitation Maraschino cherries and if making them from scratch was worth the effort.  Also, my search at lunch today yielded about a million recipes (brine, don't brine, almond extract, kirsch, maraschino liquer, etc, etc) and if someone had good or bad results with a particular recipe, I'd be curious to hear a report.

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[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

The info I saw on the earliest recipes (which was on the internet, so, you know, not to be trusted) suggested they pickled the cherries in sea water, then soaked them in maraschino liquer. I might buy some cherries and try it both ways, just to see. :)