BernardSmith
Senior Member
I am looking for some tart (or sour) cherries to make a Portuguese wine/liqueur that our son brought back from a visit to that country. I found a recipe that for about a liter of what is known as Ginjinha, I need 2 cups of red wine, 1 cup of vodka, a half-pound of tart cherries, 2 lbs of brown sugar, 4 sticks of cinnamon and perhaps 4 cloves. But try as I might, I have not found any tart cherries , frozen, in cans, or fresh. What do people use when they make a cherry pie? Any help would be appreciated, because this liqueur or fortified wine is delightful - and commercially, the bottle I received came with some chocolate "cups" into which one poured the cherry liqueur ... Wow.
